Countries
India, Nepal
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
India, Nepal
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Nepal
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
pranam
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
dhanyabad
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Śubharātri
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
kripaya
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
maf karai
  
آسف
  
Bye
Alavidā
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
kripaya
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Madhubani
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
North India
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Khortha
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million
  
35
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
27.00 million
  
30
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million
  
33
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
maithili
  
arabe
  
German Name
Maithili
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Maithil
  
Arabs
  
Origin
14th century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mai
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
mai
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
mai
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mait1250
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic