Countries
India, Nepal
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Middle East
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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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 vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Farsi Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4733
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2229
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
pranam
Silaw
Thank You
dhanyabad
Sipas
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
Śubharātri
Şev xweş
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
Bayanit bash
Please
kripaya
Bê zehmet
Sorry
maf karai
Bibûre
Bye
Alavidā
Be xêr çî
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
kripaya
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Nepal
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Madhubani
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
North India
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
153
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.31 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million20.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
maithili
kurde
German Name
Maithili
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Kurds
Origin
14th century
16th century CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Kurdish
Language Position
4014
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
kur
ISO 639 2/B
mai
kur
ISO 639 3
mai
kur
ISO 639 6
mai
kur
Glottocode
mait1250
kurd1259
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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