Countries
India, Nepal
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
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 in
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
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)
  
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Madhubani
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
North India
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Khortha
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million
  
35
276.00 million
  
6
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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