Countries
India, Nepal
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
Myanmar
Second Language
Nepal
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Mon
Regulated By
-
Myanmar Language Commission
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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Thai Language
Derived From
-
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4733
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2233
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Tangut
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
pranam
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
dhanyabad
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
Śubharātri
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
kripaya
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
maf karai
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
Alavidā
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
kripaya
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Nepal
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
North India
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khortha
Intha
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Burma
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
155
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million43.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
maithili
birman
German Name
Maithili
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Bamar people
Origin
14th century
1113 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Modern Burmese
Language Position
4043
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
mya
ISO 639 2/B
mai
bur
ISO 639 3
mai
mya
ISO 639 6
mai
mya
Glottocode
mait1250
sout3159
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating