Countries
India, Nepal
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
India, Nepal
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Nepal
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
pranam
  
hallo
  
Thank You
dhanyabad
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
Śubharātri
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
kripaya
  
bitte
  
Sorry
maf karai
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Alavidā
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
kripaya
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Madhubani
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
North India
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Khortha
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million
  
35
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
27.00 million
  
30
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million
  
33
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
maithili
  
allemand
  
German Name
Maithili
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Maithil
  
Germans
  
Origin
14th century
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mai
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
mai
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
mai
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
mait1250
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Maithili and German 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 German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maithili and German language. Maithili word for "Hello" is pranam or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Maithili Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maithili vs German Difficulty
The Maithili vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maithili Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maithili and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maithili is Not Available while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.