Countries
India, Nepal
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
Nepal
Second Language
Nepal
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4748
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2236
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, 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
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
dhanyabad
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Śubharātri
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
kripaya
कृपया
Sorry
maf karai
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Alavidā
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
kripaya
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Doteli
Where They Speak
Nepal
Nepal
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
North India
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khortha
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Nepal
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1512
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
maithili
népalais
German Name
Maithili
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
14th century
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Nepali
Language Position
4059
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
nep
ISO 639 2/B
mai
nep
ISO 639 3
mai
npi
ISO 639 6
mai
nep
Glottocode
mait1250
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative