Countries
India, Nepal
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
India, Pakistan
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
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.
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4744
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
817
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2227
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
pranam
Assalām ‘alaikum
Thank You
dhanyabad
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
Good Night
Śubharātri
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
سہا مسا
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Hach t'ochoktiya
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
Hach ch'i
Please
kripaya
مهربانی کر
Sorry
maf karai
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
Bye
Alavidā
Khuda hāfiz
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
Excuse Me
kripaya
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Kashtawari
Where They Speak
Nepal
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Poguli
Where They Speak
North India
Pogul and Paristan valleys
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.006,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khortha
Rambani
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
India
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.005,600,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
154
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million5.60 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million5.42 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
French Name
maithili
kashmiri
German Name
Maithili
Kaschmiri
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[kəːʃur]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Kashmiris or koshur
Origin
14th century
12th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Kashmiri
Language Position
4023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ks
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
kas
ISO 639 2/B
mai
kas
ISO 639 3
mai
kas
ISO 639 6
mai
kas
Glottocode
mait1250
kash1277
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-