Maithili and Cantonese
Countries
India, Nepal
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
India, Nepal
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
Regulated By
Not Available
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
How Many Consonants
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Scripts
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Language Levels
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Time Taken to Learn
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How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
你好吗？
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
晚上好
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
下午好
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
早上好
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
我爱你
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Nepal
outside mainland China
Dialect 2
Madhubani
Xiguan
Where They Speak
North India
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Khortha
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Hong Kong
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
maithili
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German Name
Maithili
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Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Maithil
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Origin
14th century
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
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Signed Forms
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Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
mai
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ISO 639 2/B
mai
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ISO 639 3
mai
No data available
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
mait1250
cant1236
Linguasphere
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Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Maithili and Cantonese Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Maithili and Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Maithili and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Maithili are spoken in different Maithili Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Maithili vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Maithili dialects include: Tharuwat, Madhubani. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Maithili and Cantonese Speaking population
Maithili and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maithili and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Maithili and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Maithili and Cantonese on Maithili vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Maithili and Cantonese Language Codes
Maithili and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maithili and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.