Countries
India, Nepal
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India, Nepal
Indonesia
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4727
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2221
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
pranam
Halo
Thank You
dhanyabad
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
piye kabare?
Good Night
Śubharātri
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
Sugeng énjing
Please
kripaya
matur nuwun
Sorry
maf karai
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
Alavidā
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
kripaya
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Nepal
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Madhubani
Cirebon
Where They Speak
North India
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Arekan
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1516
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
maithili
javanais
German Name
Maithili
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
14th century
450 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Javanese
Language Position
4011
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
jav
ISO 639 2/B
mai
jav
ISO 639 3
mai
jav
ISO 639 6
mai
jav
Glottocode
mait1250
java1253
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative