Countries
India, Nepal
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India, Nepal
Ethiopia
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4733
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2231
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
pranam
Selam
Thank You
dhanyabad
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Dehina newot?
Good Night
Śubharātri
Dehna dur
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
i'ndemin adäru
Please
kripaya
i'bakwon
Sorry
maf karai
aznallehu
Bye
Alavidā
tschao
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
kripaya
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Gondar
Where They Speak
Nepal
Gondar
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Gojjami
Where They Speak
North India
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Showa
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
155
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
maithili
amharique
German Name
Maithili
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Amharas
Origin
14th century
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Amharic
Language Position
4055
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
amh
ISO 639 2/B
mai
amh
ISO 639 3
mai
amh
ISO 639 6
mai
amh
Glottocode
mait1250
amha1245
Linguasphere
No data available
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional