Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Germany
  
India, Nepal
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Nepal
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Bhojpuri Language
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
German-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
hallo
  
pranam
  
Thank You
Danke
  
dhanyabad
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Śubharātri
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
shubh sandhya
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Suprabhaat
  
Please
bitte
  
kripaya
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
maf karai
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Alavidā
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
kripaya
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Tharuwat
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Madhubani
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
North India
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Khortha
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Deoghar, France
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
32.00 million
  
35
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
27.00 million
  
30
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
2.80 million
  
33
Native Name
Deutsch
  
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
French Name
allemand
  
maithili
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Maithili
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Maithil
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
14th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Standard Maithili
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
mai
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
mai
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
mai
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
mait1250
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
German 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 German and Maithili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Maithili language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Maithili word for "Thank You" is dhanyabad. Find more of such common German Greetings and Maithili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Maithili Difficulty
The German vs Maithili difficulty level basically depends on the number of German 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 German and Maithili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Maithili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Maithili time required is Not Available.