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| Maithili | |
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| मैथिली, মৈথিলী | |
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| Native to | India, Madhesh and Nepal |
| Region | Northern Bihar, Madhesh,Nepal |
| Ethnicity | Maithil |
Native speakers | (30 million cited 2000–2001)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Tirhuta (Mithilakshar) Kaithi (Maithili style) Devanagari | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Nepal Interim Constitution 2007India 8th schedule of Constitution of India, Bihar |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | mai |
| ISO 639-3 | mai |
| Glottolog | mait1250 |
Maithili (Nepali: मैथिली; /ˈmaɪtɪli/;[2] Maithilī) is an Indo-Aryan language. It is spoken in Nepal and northern India. It is spoken by 34.7 million people. Of those, 2.8 million are Nepalese people. It is the second largest national language of Nepal.[3] In ancient times, Maithili language was written in Mithilakshar.[4] Now it is written in Devanagari script.
References
- ↑ Maithili at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- ↑ "Maithili". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. Template:OEDsub
- ↑ Lewis, M. P. (ed.) (2009). Maithili Archived 2013-09-22 at the Wayback Machine Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
- ↑ Yadava, Y. P. (2013). Linguistic context and language endangerment in Nepal. Nepalese Linguistics 28: 262–274.
