Countries
India, Nepal
  
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
National Language
India, Nepal
  
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Second Language
Nepal
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
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.
  
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
  
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
  
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
pranam
  
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
Thank You
dhanyabad
  
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
Good Night
Śubharātri
  
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
  
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
  
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
Please
kripaya
  
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
Sorry
maf karai
  
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
Bye
Alavidā
  
വിട (viṭa)
  
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
Excuse Me
kripaya
  
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
  
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Israel, kerala
  
Dialect 2
Madhubani
  
Mappila
  
Where They Speak
North India
  
India
  
Dialect 3
Khortha
  
Pandy Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
  
France, kerala
  
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million
  
35
38.00 million
  
33
Native Speakers
27.00 million
  
30
38.00 million
  
26
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million
  
33
Not Available
  
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
French Name
maithili
  
malayalam
  
German Name
Maithili
  
Malayalam
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Maithil
  
Malayali
  
Origin
14th century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Dravidian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early form
  
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
  
Malayalam
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
ml
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mai
  
mal
  
ISO 639 2/B
mai
  
mal
  
ISO 639 3
mai
  
mal
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mait1250
  
mala1464
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Maithili and Malayalam 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 Malayalam greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maithili and Malayalam language. Maithili word for "Hello" is pranam or Malayalam word for "Thank You" is നന്ദി (nandi). Find more of such common Maithili Greetings and Malayalam Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maithili vs Malayalam Difficulty
The Maithili vs Malayalam difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maithili Alphabets and Malayalam 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 Malayalam are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maithili and Malayalam, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maithili is Not Available while to learn Malayalam time required is 44 weeks.