Countries
India, Nepal
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, France, United States of America
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.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Lao Language
Derived From
-
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4753
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
820
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2233
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Khmer
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
pranam
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
dhanyabad
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
Śubharātri
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
kripaya
សូម
Sorry
maf karai
សូរី
Bye
Alavidā
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
kripaya
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Nepal
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
North India
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khortha
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
156
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
maithili
khmer central
German Name
Maithili
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
14th century
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Modern Khmer
Language Position
401
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
khm
ISO 639 2/B
mai
khm
ISO 639 3
mai
khm
ISO 639 6
mai
khm
Glottocode
mait1250
khme1253
Linguasphere
No data available
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating