Countries
India, Nepal
  
Cambodia
  
National Language
India, Nepal
  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Nepal
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Alphabets in
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Khmer
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
pranam
  
ND
  
Thank You
dhanyabad
  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Good Night
Śubharātri
  
ND
  
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
  
ND
  
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
ND
  
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
  
ND
  
Please
kripaya
  
ND
  
Sorry
maf karai
  
ND
  
Bye
Alavidā
  
ND
  
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
ND
  
Excuse Me
kripaya
  
ND
  
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
  
Northern Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Madhubani
  
Khmer Krom
  
Where They Speak
North India
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Khortha
  
Western Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
  
Cambodia, Thailand
  
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million
  
35
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
27.00 million
  
30
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million
  
33
Not Available
  
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
Cambodian, Khmer
  
French Name
maithili
  
khmer central
  
German Name
Maithili
  
Kambodschanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Ethnicity
Maithil
  
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Origin
14th century
  
14
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Khmer
  
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
  
Modern Khmer
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
km
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mai
  
khm
  
ISO 639 2/B
mai
  
khm
  
ISO 639 3
mai
  
khm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mait1250
  
khme1253
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Maithili and Khmer Speaking population
Maithili and Khmer speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maithili and Khmer languages can be compared. The total count of Maithili and Khmer Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Khmer language is 0.24 %. 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 Khmer on Maithili vs Khmer where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Maithili and Khmer Language Codes
Maithili and Khmer language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maithili and Khmer Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.