Eastern Maithili

Eastern Maithili or Purbi Maithili is a dialect of Maithili language, spoken primarily in Mithila region of India. It is mainly spoken in Purnia division of Bihar, India.^[2][3] It has almost 11,116 speakers according to the 2011 census of India.^[4][1] It is very similar to the Angika dialect of Maithili, which is spoken in the Bhagalpur and Dumka regions. Like its neighbor Bengali, it is phonetically characterized by a rounded 'a' sound (halfway between 'a' and 'o', similar to the 'o' in the Bengali name 'Subroto') at the end of certain words.^[5]

Eastern Maithili
Purbi Maithili
𑒣𑒴𑒩𑒥𑒲 𑒧𑒻𑒟𑒱𑒪𑒲 • पूरबी मैथिली
Purbi Maithili written in Tirhuta script
Native to	India
Region	Mithila
Ethnicity	Maithils
Native speakers	11,100 (2011)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Bihari Maithili Eastern Maithili
Writing system	Tirhuta and Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mai
Glottolog	east2315  Eastern Maithili

See also

• Maithili language
• Mithila region
• Purnia division