Thēthi

Thēthi
ठेठी मैथिली • Thethi Maithili
The name of Thēthi written in Tirhuta
Native to	India, Nepal
Region	Mithila
Ethnicity	Maithils
Native speakers	1,65,420
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Maithili Thēthi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	tati1242   Tati (Maithili)

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 Munger divisions and Kosi Division of Bihar, 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)
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).