Maithili Wikipedia

Maithili Wikipedia
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Internet encyclopedia
Available in Maithili
Owner Wikimedia Foundation
Website mai.wikipedia.org
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Users 6420
Launched 6 November 2014 (2014-11-06)
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The Maithili Wikipedia is the Maithili language version of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. The site was launched on November 06, 2014[1]. Tirhuta was formerly the primary script for written Maithili. Less commonly, it was also written in the local variant of Kaithi.[2] Today it is written in the Devanagari script.[3] Maithili is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Bihar and Jharkhand states of India and is one of the 22 recognised Indian languages[4][5][6] which is also spoken in the eastern Terai of Nepal and is the second most prevalent language of Nepal. It is also one of the 122 recognized Nepalese languages.[7][8]

History

The process of creating a Maithili Language Wikipedia began since 2008 and, later on, got momentum in August, 2014 & become able to launch on November 2018.[9][10]

Users and editors

Maithili Wikipedia statistics
Number of user accountsNumber of articlesNumber of filesNumber of administrators
642013026694

See also

References

  1. "मैथिली-विकिपिडिया-स्थापन - saptarijagran.com".
  2. Brass, P. R. (2005). Language, Religion and Politics in North India. Lincoln: iUniverse. ISBN 0-595-34394-5. Archived from the original on 11 May 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  3. Yadava, Y. P. (2013). Linguistic context and language endangerment in Nepal. Nepalese Linguistics 28 Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine.: 262–274.
  4. http://mha.nic.in/hindi/sites/upload_files/mhahindi/files/pdf/Eighth_Schedule.pdf
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 March 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
  6. https://m.livehindustan.com/jharkhand/story-maithili-will-get-second-state-language-status-in-jharkhand-1835624.html
  7. "Nepal". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
  8. Sah, K. K. (2013). "Some perspectives on Maithili". Nepalese Linguistics (28): 179–188.
  9. Team, glocalkhabar. "wikipedia maithili language approved".
  10. Team, khabar.jp. "wikipedia in maithili".
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