Countries
Myanmar
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Myanmar
  
India, Nepal
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Nepal
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Mon
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  
- 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
Thai Language
  
Bhojpuri Language
  
Derived From
Pali Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Tangut
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
pranam
  
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
dhanyabad
  
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Śubharātri
  
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
shubh sandhya
  
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Suprabhaat
  
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
kripaya
  
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
maf karai
  
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
Alavidā
  
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
kripaya
  
Dialect 1
Arakanese
  
Tharuwat
  
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tavoyan
  
Madhubani
  
Where They Speak
Myanmar
  
North India
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Intha
  
Khortha
  
Where They Speak
Burma
  
Deoghar, France
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million
  
30
32.00 million
  
35
Native Speakers
33.00 million
  
28
27.00 million
  
30
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
2.80 million
  
33
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
French Name
birman
  
maithili
  
German Name
Birmanisch
  
Maithili
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Bamar people
  
Maithil
  
Origin
1113 AD
  
14th century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
  
Standard Maithili
  
Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
my
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mya
  
mai
  
ISO 639 2/B
bur
  
mai
  
ISO 639 3
mya
  
mai
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sout3159
  
mait1250
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Not Available
  
Burmese and Maithili Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Burmese and Maithili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Burmese and Maithili language. Burmese word for "Hello" is မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar) or Maithili word for "Thank You" is dhanyabad. Find more of such common Burmese Greetings and Maithili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Burmese vs Maithili Difficulty
The Burmese vs Maithili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Burmese Alphabets and Maithili Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Burmese and Maithili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Burmese and Maithili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Burmese is 44 weeks while to learn Maithili time required is Not Available.