Countries
India, Nepal
  
India, Pakistan
  
National Language
India, Nepal
  
India, Pakistan, Sindh
  
Second Language
Nepal
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
  
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.
  
- The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
  
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
  
Gujarati
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Prakrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sindhi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Arabic, Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
pranam
  
Assalam O Alaikum
  
Thank You
dhanyabad
  
Meharbani
  
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Kehra haal aahin
  
Good Night
Śubharātri
  
tava kia aayo
  
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
  
Sham Jo Salam
  
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
Assalam o Alaikum
  
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
  
Subho Bakhair
  
Please
kripaya
  
Mehrbani
  
Sorry
maf karai
  
Moon khe afsos aahe
  
Bye
Alavidā
  
Allah Wahi
  
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
  
Excuse Me
kripaya
  
Maaf Kajo
  
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
  
Siraiki
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Upper Sindh
  
Dialect 2
Madhubani
  
Vicholi
  
Where They Speak
North India
  
Central Sindh
  
Dialect 3
Khortha
  
Lari
  
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
  
Lower Sindh
  
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million
  
35
29.00 million
  
37
Native Speakers
27.00 million
  
30
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million
  
33
Not Available
  
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
Not Available
  
French Name
maithili
  
sindhi
  
German Name
Maithili
  
Sindhi-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Maithil
  
Not Available
  
Origin
14th century
  
711 A.D
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
  
Sindhi
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
sd
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mai
  
snd
  
ISO 639 2/B
mai
  
snd
  
ISO 639 3
mai
  
snd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mait1250
  
sind1272
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Maithili and Sindhi Speaking population
Maithili and Sindhi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maithili and Sindhi languages can be compared. The total count of Maithili and Sindhi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sindhi language is 0.39 %. 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 Sindhi on Maithili vs Sindhi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Maithili and Sindhi Language Codes
Maithili and Sindhi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maithili and Sindhi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.