Countries
India, Nepal
Myanmar
National Language
India, Nepal
Myanmar
Second Language
Nepal
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Mon
Regulated By
Not Available
Myanmar Language Commission
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 naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
Thai Language
Derived From
Not Available
Pali Language
Alphabets in
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Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
How Many Consonants
Not Available
Scripts
Devanagari
Tangut
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
Hello
pranam
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
dhanyabad
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
Śubharātri
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
kripaya
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
maf karai
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
Alavidā
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
kripaya
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Nepal
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Madhubani
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
North India
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
Burma
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
maithili
birman
German Name
Maithili
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Maithil
Bamar people
Origin
14th century
1113 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
Modern Burmese
Signed Forms
Not Available
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
my
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mait1250
sout3159
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating
Maithili and Burmese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Maithili and Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maithili and Burmese language. Maithili word for "Hello" is pranam or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Maithili Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maithili vs Burmese Difficulty
The Maithili vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maithili Alphabets and Burmese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Maithili and Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maithili and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maithili is Not Available while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.