Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
India, Nepal
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Nepal
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Bhojpuri Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
English-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Hello
  
pranam
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
dhanyabad
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
Śubharātri
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
shubh sandhya
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
Suprabhaat
  
Please
Please
  
kripaya
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
maf karai
  
Bye
Bye
  
Alavidā
  
I Love You
I love you
  
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
kripaya
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Tharuwat
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Madhubani
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
North India
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Khortha
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Deoghar, France
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
32.00 million
  
35
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
27.00 million
  
30
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
2.80 million
  
33
Native Name
English
  
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
French Name
anglais
  
maithili
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Maithili
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Maithil
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
14th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Standard Maithili
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
mai
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
mai
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
mai
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
mait1250
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Not Available