Countries
India, Nepal
  
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
National Language
India, Nepal
  
France
  
Second Language
Nepal
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
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.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
pranam
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
dhanyabad
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
Śubharātri
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
  
Bonjour
  
Please
kripaya
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
maf karai
  
désolé
  
Bye
Alavidā
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
kripaya
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Madhubani
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
North India
  
Africa
  
Dialect 3
Khortha
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million
  
35
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
27.00 million
  
30
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million
  
33
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
Français
  
French Name
maithili
  
français
  
German Name
Maithili
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Maithil
  
Not Available
  
Origin
14th century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
  
Standard French
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mai
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
mai
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
mai
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
mait1250
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic