Countries
India
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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.
Similar To
Old German Language
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
Prakrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5247
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
168
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3622
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
pranam
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
dhanyabad
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Śubharātri
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Suprabhaat
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
kripaya
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
maf karai
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
Alavidā
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
kripaya
Dialect 1
Not present
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
-
Nepal
How Many People Speak
140,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Madhubani
Where They Speak
-
North India
How Many People Speak
140,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Khortha
Where They Speak
-
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
140,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
015
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
14.10 million32.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.41 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
14.10 million27.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-2.80 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
sanskrit
maithili
German Name
Sanskrit
Maithili
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Maithil
Origin
2000 B.C.
14th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Standard Maithili
Language Position
2340
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sa
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
mai
ISO 639 2/B
san
mai
ISO 639 3
san
mai
ISO 639 6
san
mai
Glottocode
sans1269
mait1250
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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