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Maithili and Russian


Russian and Maithili


Countries

Countries
India, Nepal   
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
4   
11

National Language
India, Nepal   
Russia   

Second Language
Nepal   
Afganistan   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan   

Regulated By
Not Available   
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences   

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.
  
  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  

Similar To
Bhojpuri Language   
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
47   
27
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8   
5
10   
7

How Many Consonants
Not Available   
21   
11

Scripts
Devanagari   
Cyrillic   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
Not Available   
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
Not Available   
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
pranam   
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)   

Thank You
dhanyabad   
спасибо(spasibo)   

How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?   
Как дела? (Kak dela?)   

Good Night
Śubharātri   
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)   

Good Evening
shubh sandhya   
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)   

Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar   
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')   

Good Morning
Suprabhaat   
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)   

Please
kripaya   
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)   

Sorry
maf karai   
Извините(Izvinite)   

Bye
Alavidā   
до свидания(do svidaniya)   

I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi   
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)   

Excuse Me
kripaya   
извините(izvinite)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Tharuwat   
Doukhobor Russian   

Where They Speak
Nepal   
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
30,000.00   
99+

Dialect 2
Madhubani   
Olonets   

Where They Speak
North India   
Olonets   

Dialect 3
Khortha   
Novgorod   

Where They Speak
Deoghar, France   
Novgorod   

Total No. Of Dialects
15   
14
13   
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
32.00 million   
35
276.00 million   
6

Speaking Population
0.41 %   
33
2.33 %   
9

Native Speakers
27.00 million   
30
166.00 million   
8

Second Language Speakers
2.80 million   
33
110.00 million   
7

Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)   
Русский   

Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia   
Russki   

French Name
maithili   
russe   

German Name
Maithili   
Russisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]   

Ethnicity
Maithil   
Russians   

History

Origin
14th century   
1000 AD   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Slavic   

Branch
Not Available   
Eastern   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old East Slavic   

Standard Forms
Standard Maithili   
Standard Russian   

Language Position
40   
31
7   
7

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Signed Russian   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available   
ru   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mai   
rus   

ISO 639 2/B
mai   
rus   

ISO 639 3
mai   
rus   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
mait1250   
russ1263   

Linguasphere
No data available   
53-AAA-ea   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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All Maithili and Russian 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 Russian dialects. Various dialects of Maithili and Russian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Maithili are spoken in different Maithili Speaking Countries whereas Russian Dialects are spoken in different Russian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Maithili vs Russian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Maithili dialects include: Tharuwat, Madhubani. Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian , Olonets. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Maithili and Russian Speaking population

Maithili and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maithili and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Maithili and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Russian on Maithili vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maithili and Russian Language Codes

Maithili and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maithili and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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