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Maithili vs Burmese


Burmese vs Maithili


Countries

Countries
India, Nepal  
Myanmar  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

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

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

Alphabets
47  
27
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
12  
9

How Many Consonants
Not Available  
33  
23

Scripts
Devanagari  
Tangut  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
Not Available  
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
Not Available  
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Tharuwat  
Arakanese  

Where They Speak
Nepal  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
2,000,000.00  
24

Dialect 2
Madhubani  
Tavoyan  

Where They Speak
North India  
Myanmar  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
440,000.00  
30

Dialect 3
Khortha  
Intha  

Where They Speak
Deoghar, France  
Burma  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
90,000.00  
30

Total No. Of Dialects
15  
14
5  
5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
32.00 million  
35
43.00 million  
30

Speaking Population
0.41 %  
33
0.50 %  
29

Native Speakers
27.00 million  
30
33.00 million  
28

Second Language Speakers
2.80 million  
33
10.00 million  
23

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  

History

Origin
14th century  
1113 AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese  

Standard Forms
Standard Maithili  
Modern Burmese  

Language Position
40  
31
43  
32

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Burmese sign language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available  
my  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mai  
mya  

ISO 639 2/B
mai  
bur  

ISO 639 3
mai  
mya  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
mait1250  
sout3159  

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  
Analytic, Isolating  

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Maithili and Burmese Language History

Comparison of Maithili vs Burmese language history gives us differences between origin of Maithili and Burmese language. History of Maithili language states that this language originated in 14th century whereas history of Burmese language states that this language originated in 1113 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Maithili and Burmese Language History.

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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.

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