Thēthi, also known as Thēth, Thethiya, Thenthi, or Thati, is a Maithili dialect, mainly spoken in the Mithila region of India and Nepal.[1][2] It is spoken mainly in most of the Munger division(excluding the southern, eastern and western parts of Munger district and the Jamui district) and Samastipur, India and in Koshi Province of Nepal.[3] It has 165,000 speakers in India according to the 2011 census.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "LDCIL Release Documentation" (PDF). LDCIL. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 August 2023. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
  2. ↑ Maithili at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  3. ↑ Ray, Kaushal Kishor (November 2009). "Reduplication in Thethi dialect of Maithili language". Nepalese Linguistics. 24: 285–290.
  4. ↑ "Language census of India 2011" (PDF).
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thēthi