प्रणाम!
say it: “prah-NAHM”
Maithili
in its own words: मैथिली
- Speakers
- 34 million (estimate)
- Family
- Indo-European – Indo-Aryan
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- India, Nepal
- Script
- Devanagari
- Official language
- India (regional)
Fun fact
Maithili was traditionally written in the Tirhuta script, today mostly in Devanagari. Its best-known poet is Vidyapati (14th–15th c.); it has been a scheduled language of India since 2003.