Countries
India, Nepal
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
India
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Old German Language
Derived From
-
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4752
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
816
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
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks20 weeks
3
88
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Hello
pranam
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
dhanyabad
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
Śubharātri
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
kripaya
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
maf karai
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
Alavidā
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
kripaya
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Not present
Where They Speak
Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Madhubani
Not present
Where They Speak
North India
-
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khortha
Not present
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
-
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
150
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million14.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million14.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million-
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
maithili
sanskrit
German Name
Maithili
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
14th century
2000 B.C.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Sanskrit
Language Position
4023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
-
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
san
ISO 639 2/B
mai
san
ISO 639 3
mai
san
ISO 639 6
mai
san
Glottocode
mait1250
sans1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic