Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
India, Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Nepal
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish 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
Finnish
  
Bhojpuri Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-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
Tere
  
pranam
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
dhanyabad
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
Śubharātri
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
shubh sandhya
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
Suprabhaat
  
Please
Palun
  
kripaya
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
maf karai
  
Bye
Head aega
  
Alavidā
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
kripaya
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Tharuwat
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Nepal
  
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Madhubani
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
North India
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Khortha
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Deoghar, France
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
32.00 million
  
35
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
27.00 million
  
30
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.80 million
  
33
Native Name
eesti keel
  
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
French Name
estonien
  
maithili
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Maithili
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Maithil
  
Origin
13th century
  
14th century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Standard Maithili
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
mai
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
mai
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
mai
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
mait1250
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available
  
Estonian 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 Estonian and Maithili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Maithili language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Maithili word for "Thank You" is dhanyabad. Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Maithili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Estonian vs Maithili Difficulty
The Estonian vs Maithili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian 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 Estonian and Maithili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Maithili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Maithili time required is Not Available.