Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
India, Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Nepal
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
- 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
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Bhojpuri Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
pranam
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
dhanyabad
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
Śubharātri
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
shubh sandhya
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Suprabhaat
  
Please
من فضلك
  
kripaya
  
Sorry
آسف
  
maf karai
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Alavidā
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
kripaya
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Tharuwat
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Nepal
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Madhubani
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
North India
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Khortha
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Deoghar, France
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
32.00 million
  
35
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
27.00 million
  
30
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
2.80 million
  
33
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
French Name
arabe
  
maithili
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Maithili
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Maithil
  
Origin
512 CE
  
14th century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Standard Maithili
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
mai
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
mai
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
mai
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
mait1250
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available