Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Sweden
  
India, Nepal
  
Second Language
Finland
  
Nepal
  
Speaking Continents
Antartica, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Norwegian and Danish Language
  
Bhojpuri Language
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200
  
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
hej
  
pranam
  
Thank You
tacka dig
  
dhanyabad
  
How Are You?
hur mår du
  
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Good Night
godnatt
  
Śubharātri
  
Good Evening
god kväll
  
shubh sandhya
  
Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag
  
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
Good Morning
god morgon
  
Suprabhaat
  
Please
vänligen
  
kripaya
  
Sorry
ledsen
  
maf karai
  
Bye
hej då
  
Alavidā
  
I Love You
jag älskar dig
  
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Excuse Me
ursäkta mig
  
kripaya
  
Dialect 1
Dialects
  
Tharuwat
  
Where They Speak
Gabon
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Dialects
  
Madhubani
  
Where They Speak
Georgia
  
North India
  
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Dialects
  
Khortha
  
Where They Speak
France
  
Deoghar, France
  
How Many People Speak
96,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million
  
99+
32.00 million
  
35
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
27.00 million
  
30
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
2.80 million
  
33
Native Name
Svenska
  
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
  
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
French Name
suédois
  
maithili
  
German Name
Schwedisch
  
Maithili
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
  
Maithil
  
Origin
13th Century
  
14th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Swedish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
  
Standard Maithili
  
Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sv
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swe
  
mai
  
ISO 639 2/B
swe
  
mai
  
ISO 639 3
swe
  
mai
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swed1254
  
mait1250
  
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Swedish and Maithili Speaking population
Swedish and Maithili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swedish and Maithili languages can be compared. The total count of Swedish and Maithili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Swedish and Maithili on Swedish vs Maithili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Swedish and Maithili Language Codes
Swedish and Maithili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Swedish and Maithili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.