Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
India, Nepal
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Nepal
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
- 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
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Bhojpuri Language
  
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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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 (Nín hǎo)
  
pranam
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
dhanyabad
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Śubharātri
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
shubh sandhya
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Suprabhaat
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
kripaya
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
maf karai
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
Alavidā
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
kripaya
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Tharuwat
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Madhubani
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
North India
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Khortha
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
Deoghar, France
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
32.00 million
  
35
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
27.00 million
  
30
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
2.80 million
  
33
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
French Name
chinois
  
maithili
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Maithili
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Maithil
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
14th century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
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Branch
Not Available
  
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Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Standard Maithili
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
mai
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
mai
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
mai
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
mait1250
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Not Available
  
Chinese 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 Chinese and Maithili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Maithili language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Maithili word for "Thank You" is dhanyabad. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Maithili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Maithili Difficulty
The Chinese vs Maithili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese 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 Chinese and Maithili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Maithili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Maithili time required is Not Available.