Countries
India, Nepal
  
Norway
  
National Language
India, Nepal
  
Norway
  
Second Language
Nepal
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Nynorsk
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Norwegian Language 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.
  
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
  
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
  
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-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
  
hallo
  
Thank You
dhanyabad
  
takk
  
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
Śubharātri
  
god natt
  
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
  
god kveld
  
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
god ettermiddag
  
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
  
god morgen
  
Please
kripaya
  
Vær så snill
  
Sorry
maf karai
  
unnskyld
  
Bye
Alavidā
  
ha det
  
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Excuse Me
kripaya
  
unnskyld meg
  
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Madhubani
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
North India
  
Sogn
  
Dialect 3
Khortha
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million
  
35
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
27.00 million
  
30
5.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million
  
33
Not Available
  
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
Norsk
  
French Name
maithili
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Maithili
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Ethnicity
Maithil
  
Norwegians
  
Origin
14th century
  
c. 1300 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
  
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
no
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mai
  
nor
  
ISO 639 2/B
mai
  
nor
  
ISO 639 3
mai
  
nor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mait1250
  
norw1258
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Maithili and Norwegian Speaking population
Maithili and Norwegian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maithili and Norwegian languages can be compared. The total count of Maithili and Norwegian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Norwegian language is Not Available. 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 Norwegian on Maithili vs Norwegian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Maithili and Norwegian Language Codes
Maithili and Norwegian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maithili and Norwegian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.