Countries
India, Nepal
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Nepal
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
-
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Armenian
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4724
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2217
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
pranam
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
dhanyabad
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
Śubharātri
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
kripaya
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
maf karai
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
Alavidā
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
kripaya
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Nepal
Greece
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Griko
Where They Speak
North India
Italy
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1525
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million13.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
maithili
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Maithili
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
14th century
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Modern Greek
Language Position
4074
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
ell
ISO 639 2/B
mai
gre
ISO 639 3
mai
ell
ISO 639 6
mai
ells
Glottocode
mait1250
gree1276
Linguasphere
No data available
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic