Countries
India, Nepal
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
Norway
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nynorsk
Regulated By
-
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4729
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
89
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2220
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
pranam
hallo
Thank You
dhanyabad
takk
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Śubharātri
god natt
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
god kveld
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
god morgen
Please
kripaya
Vær så snill
Sorry
maf karai
unnskyld
Bye
Alavidā
ha det
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
kripaya
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Nepal
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Sognamål
Where They Speak
North India
Sogn
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1519
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Norsk
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Norsk
French Name
maithili
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Maithili
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Maithil
Norwegians
Origin
14th century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
4018
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
nor
ISO 639 2/B
mai
nor
ISO 639 3
mai
nor
ISO 639 6
mai
nor
Glottocode
mait1250
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional