Countries
India, Nepal
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India, Nepal
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Munda Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4730
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2221
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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
Henda ho
Thank You
dhanyabad
Adi Johar
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
Śubharātri
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
संध्यायान
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
Boge Setak’
Please
kripaya
দয়া করে
Sorry
maf karai
দুঃখিত
Bye
Alavidā
Hariau
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
kripaya
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Mahali
Where They Speak
Nepal
India
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Madhubani
Not present
Where They Speak
North India
-
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Khortha
Not present
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
-
How Many People Speak
35,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
151
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.41 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
27.00 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million6.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
maithili
santal
German Name
Maithili
Santali
Pronunciation
[ˈmaitʰili]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Maithil
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
14th century
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Santali
Language Position
4041
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maithili Sign Language
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mai
sat
ISO 639 2/B
mai
sat
ISO 639 3
mai
sat
ISO 639 6
mai
sat
Glottocode
mait1250
sant1410
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-