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Maithili
(autonym: मैथिली maithilī) is of the family of Indo-aryan langauges,
which are part of the Indo-Iranian branch of the indo-european
languages. It is spoken in the Indian state of Bihar and in the eastern
Terai region of Nepal. Linguists consider Maithili to be an Eastern
Indic language, and thus a different language from Hindi, which is
Central Indic. Maithili has been considered a dialect of both Hindi and
Bengali, and in fact was classified as a mother tongue of Hindi in the
Census of India. In 2003 Maithili gained the status of an independent
language in India. A movement to give the language official status
through inclusion in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution so
that it may be used in education, government, and other official
contexts, resulted in Maithili being given official status in 2003. Now
Maithili is among the 22 scheduled languages in the Indian constitution.
Maithili was traditionally written in the Maithili
script (also known by the names Tirhuta and Mithilakshar, which has
some resemblance with the Bengali script. It was also written in the
Kaithi script, but the Devanagari script is the script most commonly
used today for Maithili. An effort is underway to preserve the Maithili
script and to develop it for use in digital media.
But Apart from all the things there is a need
to come together for the cause of maithili computing and start working
for it. Actually open source model is providing the base for all. We
can make our own computer in our mother tongue. But all is needed your
kar-seva for this project. You can help in several ways so why to wait
for...come and join us.
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