Countries
Indonesia
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
India, Nepal
  
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Nepal
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
- 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
Malay language
  
Bhojpuri Language
  
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Halo
  
pranam
  
Thank You
Terima kasih
  
dhanyabad
  
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
  
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
Śubharātri
  
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
  
shubh sandhya
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
  
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
  
Suprabhaat
  
Please
mohon Untuk
  
kripaya
  
Sorry
maaf
  
maf karai
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
Alavidā
  
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
  
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Excuse Me
Permisi
  
kripaya
  
Dialect 1
Sundanese
  
Tharuwat
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00
  
8
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Balinese
  
Madhubani
  
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
North India
  
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Minangkabau
  
Khortha
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Deoghar, France
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
32.00 million
  
35
Native Speakers
23.00 million
  
34
27.00 million
  
30
Second Language Speakers
140.00 million
  
4
2.80 million
  
33
Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
  
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
French Name
indonésien
  
maithili
  
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Maithili
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Indonesians
  
Maithil
  
Origin
7th Century
  
14th century
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Malay
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Indonesian
  
Standard Maithili
  
Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
id
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ind
  
mai
  
ISO 639 2/B
ind
  
mai
  
ISO 639 3
ind
  
mai
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
indo1316
  
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
  
Indonesian 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 Indonesian and Maithili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Indonesian and Maithili language. Indonesian word for "Hello" is Halo or Maithili word for "Thank You" is dhanyabad. Find more of such common Indonesian Greetings and Maithili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Indonesian vs Maithili Difficulty
The Indonesian vs Maithili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Indonesian 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 Indonesian and Maithili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Indonesian and Maithili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Indonesian is 36 weeks while to learn Maithili time required is Not Available.