Talk:Maithili language
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In the section "Maithili Books, all the books and the images are of one single author. I do not think that wikipedia should be used by anyone to promote commercial interest. I strongly feel that the present contents of this section should be removed and list of books, specially those which have won Sahitya Kala Academy Awards or other awards should be mentioned here. Any attempts to gain commercial benefits from wikipedia should be strongly discouraged. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.16.140.84 (talk) 07:23, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
It is wrongly written that the Maithili speaking population is 24 million. The actual number of Maithili speaking population is only 10 Lakh. Maithili language is spoken mainly in Darbhanga,Madhubani and part of Saharsa, Madhepura, and Supoul districts of Bihar.
I have recently created a page for Mithilakshar and now it is linked to this page. Please visit. It has the script uploaded.
Reply: The confusion regarding the number of speakers of Maithili is dual:
- The exact definition of Maithili language is vague and some times taken to include speakers of other related dialects which are sometimes classified under Magahi, Bhojpuri, Nepali or others.
- There are quite a substantial number of speakers of Maithili in Nepal. The wikipedia page of Nepal puts the figure to 12.1% of the Nepalese population which comes to about 3255960 ,ie 3.25 million.
Rohitcadz 13:37, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] User Language Template for Maithili-Wikipedia:Babel
I have (painstakingly!) edited the Wikipedia:Babel page and created a category for maithili and the templates. These are used in the user pages and make it easier to contact who communicate in a certain (eg maithili) language. All Maithili speakers (with varying degree of proficiencies) please add the relevant userbox to your user pages. Please also try to improve the user box as I am not very proficient at it. Rohitcadz 13:28, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] classified as a mother tongue of Hindi in the Census of India.
Somebody please explain this expression. Does it mean that Hindi is a dialect of or derived from Maithili? Is "mother tongue" the official term? O'RyanW (☺ ₪) 10:33, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
- Or does it mean (as I suspect) that the census counts Maithili speakers as Hindi speakers? --Haruo 19:27, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
- This Census of India page for 1991 seems to say that 7,766,597 people reported themselves as native speakers of Maithili and as also speaking Hindi. Do I read it correctly? Is this the basis for th classified as a "mother tongue" of Hindi in the Census line in the first paragraph?
- Does the census also elsewhere claim that all speakers of Maithili speak Hindi? I hve not yet found any other mention of Maithili in the 1991 census. I note that the infobox at the head of the article says total speakers come to 45 million while Ethnologue puts the "population count at 22,000,000 (1981) in India and 24,795,582 for all countries.
- I have not found mention in the census of "mother tongue" in the (unusual) sense of etymological source language. The intent of the "mother tongue" statement in the lead paragraph remains unclear to me. In any case it should be clarified and brought in line with (and cite) whatever census claim it purports to report. O'RyanW (☺ ₪) 18:55, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
