Countries
India, Nepal
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
Russia
Second Language
Nepal
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
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Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4733
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2221
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
pranam
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
dhanyabad
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Śubharātri
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
kripaya
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
maf karai
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Alavidā
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
kripaya
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Nepal
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Olonets
Where They Speak
North India
Olonets
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khortha
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1513
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Русский
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Russki
French Name
maithili
russe
German Name
Maithili
Russisch
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Russians
Origin
14th century
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Standard Russian
Language Position
407
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
rus
ISO 639 2/B
mai
rus
ISO 639 3
mai
rus
ISO 639 6
mai
rus
Glottocode
mait1250
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic