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Language code: mai

Technical information about ISO 639 language code mai

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The table below provides technical details for the Maithili language, designated by the mai code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

mai

Name

Maithili

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Central MaithiliEastern MaithiliWestern Maithili (Bajjika)
Related languages
BhojpuriMagahiHindiBengaliNepali
Key facts
Earliest extensive literature was created by the 14th-century poet Vidyapati, whose lyric poems influenced later eastern Indo-Aryan literaturesHistorically, Maithili was written in the ornate Tirhuta script, which has been encoded in Unicode since 2014The language preserves distinct polite, familiar and honorific second-person formsTraditional Maithili folk theatre ‘Nachari’ and seasonal songs are integral to its oral cultureMaithili maintains a rare dual number in its pronoun and verb systems in addition to singular and plural.
Sample phrase

नमस्कार, अहाँ केहन छी?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Maithili language, identified by the code mai, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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