Countries
India, Nepal
  
Hong Kong, Macau
  
National Language
India, Nepal
  
China, Guangdong
  
Second Language
Nepal
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Hawaii
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
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.
  
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
pranam
  
您好
  
Thank You
dhanyabad
  
谢谢
  
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
你好吗?
  
Good Night
Śubharātri
  
晚安
  
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
  
晚上好
  
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
下午好
  
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
  
早上好
  
Please
kripaya
  
请
  
Sorry
maf karai
  
遗憾
  
Bye
Alavidā
  
再见
  
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
我爱你
  
Excuse Me
kripaya
  
原谅我
  
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
  
Guangzhou
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
outside mainland China
  
Dialect 2
Madhubani
  
Xiguan
  
Where They Speak
North India
  
Hong Kong
  
Dialect 3
Khortha
  
Hong Kong
  
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million
  
35
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
27.00 million
  
30
52.00 million
  
21
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million
  
33
Not Available
  
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
French Name
maithili
  
Not Available
  
German Name
Maithili
  
Not Available
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Maithil
  
Not Available
  
Origin
14th century
  
17th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
  
Standard Cantonese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mai
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
mai
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
mai
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mait1250
  
cant1236
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Maithili and Cantonese 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 Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maithili and Cantonese language. Maithili word for "Hello" is pranam or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Maithili Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maithili vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Maithili vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maithili Alphabets and Cantonese 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 Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maithili and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maithili is Not Available while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.