Countries
India, Nepal
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
India, Nepal
  
India
  
Second Language
Nepal
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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.
  
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
pranam
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
dhanyabad
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
Śubharātri
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
kripaya
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
maf karai
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
Alavidā
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
kripaya
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Madhubani
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
North India
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Khortha
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million
  
35
380.00 million
  
5
Native Speakers
27.00 million
  
30
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million
  
33
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
maithili
  
hindi
  
German Name
Maithili
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Maithil
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
14th century
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
  
Standard Hindi
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mai
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
mai
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
mai
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
hins
  
Glottocode
mait1250
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Maithili and Hindi 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 Hindi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maithili and Hindi language. Maithili word for "Hello" is pranam or Hindi word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda). Find more of such common Maithili Greetings and Hindi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maithili vs Hindi Difficulty
The Maithili vs Hindi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maithili Alphabets and Hindi 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 Hindi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maithili and Hindi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maithili is Not Available while to learn Hindi time required is 44 weeks.