Countries
India, Nepal
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
India, Nepal
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Second Language
Nepal
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
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.
  
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  
Similar To
Bhojpuri Language
  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
pranam
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
dhanyabad
  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
Śubharātri
  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Please
kripaya
  
Молим (Molim)
  
Sorry
maf karai
  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bye
Alavidā
  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Excuse Me
kripaya
  
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
Dialect 2
Madhubani
  
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Where They Speak
North India
  
Serbia
  
Dialect 3
Khortha
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,500,000.00
  
17
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million
  
35
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
27.00 million
  
30
8.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million
  
33
Not Available
  
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
Montenegrin
  
French Name
maithili
  
serbe
  
German Name
Maithili
  
Serbisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Maithil
  
Serbs
  
Origin
14th century
  
11th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
  
Standard Serbian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mai
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
mai
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
mai
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mait1250
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Maithili and Serbian 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 Serbian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maithili and Serbian language. Maithili word for "Hello" is pranam or Serbian word for "Thank You" is Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo). Find more of such common Maithili Greetings and Serbian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maithili vs Serbian Difficulty
The Maithili vs Serbian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maithili Alphabets and Serbian 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 Serbian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maithili and Serbian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maithili is Not Available while to learn Serbian time required is 44 weeks.