Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
China, Guangdong
  
India, Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Nepal
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Hawaii
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  
- 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
Chinese Language
  
Bhojpuri Language
  
Derived From
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Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
您好
  
pranam
  
Thank You
谢谢
  
dhanyabad
  
How Are You?
你好吗?
  
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Good Night
晚安
  
Śubharātri
  
Good Evening
晚上好
  
shubh sandhya
  
Good Afternoon
下午好
  
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
Good Morning
早上好
  
Suprabhaat
  
Please
请
  
kripaya
  
Sorry
遗憾
  
maf karai
  
Bye
再见
  
Alavidā
  
I Love You
我爱你
  
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Excuse Me
原谅我
  
kripaya
  
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
  
Tharuwat
  
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
  
Nepal
  
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
Madhubani
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
North India
  
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Khortha
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Deoghar, France
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
32.00 million
  
35
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
27.00 million
  
30
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.80 million
  
33
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
French Name
Not Available
  
maithili
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Maithili
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Maithil
  
Origin
17th century
  
14th century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Standard Maithili
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
mai
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
mai
  
ISO 639 3
No data available
  
mai
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
cant1236
  
mait1250
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
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Language Morphological Typology
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Cantonese 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 Cantonese and Maithili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Maithili language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Maithili word for "Thank You" is dhanyabad. Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Maithili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cantonese vs Maithili Difficulty
The Cantonese vs Maithili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese 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 Cantonese and Maithili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Maithili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Maithili time required is Not Available.