Countries
India, Nepal
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
India, Nepal
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Nepal
  
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
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 modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
  
Malay language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Alphabets in
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
pranam
  
Halo
  
Thank You
dhanyabad
  
Terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Apa kabar?
  
Good Night
Śubharātri
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
  
Malam yang baik
  
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
Selamat Sore
  
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
  
Selamat Pagi
  
Please
kripaya
  
mohon Untuk
  
Sorry
maf karai
  
maaf
  
Bye
Alavidā
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Aku cinta kamu
  
Excuse Me
kripaya
  
Permisi
  
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
  
Sundanese
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
38,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 2
Madhubani
  
Balinese
  
Where They Speak
North India
  
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,300,000.00
  
17
Dialect 3
Khortha
  
Minangkabau
  
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,000,000.00
  
7
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million
  
35
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
27.00 million
  
30
23.00 million
  
34
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million
  
33
140.00 million
  
4
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Bahasa Melayu
  
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
French Name
maithili
  
indonésien
  
German Name
Maithili
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Maithil
  
Indonesians
  
Origin
14th century
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Malay
  
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
  
Indonesian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
id
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mai
  
ind
  
ISO 639 2/B
mai
  
ind
  
ISO 639 3
mai
  
ind
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mait1250
  
indo1316
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Maithili and Indonesian 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 Indonesian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maithili and Indonesian language. Maithili word for "Hello" is pranam or Indonesian word for "Thank You" is Terima kasih. Find more of such common Maithili Greetings and Indonesian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maithili vs Indonesian Difficulty
The Maithili vs Indonesian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maithili Alphabets and Indonesian 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 Indonesian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maithili and Indonesian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maithili is Not Available while to learn Indonesian time required is 36 weeks.