Countries
India, Nepal
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
India, Nepal
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Nepal
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
pranam
  
سلام
  
Thank You
dhanyabad
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
Śubharātri
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
kripaya
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
maf karai
  
متاسف
  
Bye
Alavidā
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
kripaya
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Madhubani
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
North India
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Khortha
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million
  
35
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
27.00 million
  
30
65.00 million
  
17
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million
  
33
Not Available
  
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
maithili
  
persan
  
German Name
Maithili
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Maithil
  
Persian people
  
Origin
14th century
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
  
Persian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mai
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
mai
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
mai
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mait1250
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Maithili and Persian 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 Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maithili and Persian language. Maithili word for "Hello" is pranam or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Maithili Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maithili vs Persian Difficulty
The Maithili vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maithili Alphabets and Persian 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 Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maithili and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maithili is Not Available while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.