Maithili
/ˈmʌɪtɪli
/noun [mass noun]
One of the Bihari group of languages, spoken by some 25 million people in northern Bihar, elsewhere in India, and in Nepal.In India, for instance, Maithili was claimed as a mother tongue by over 6 million people in the 1971 census....
- For ‘Chitchor’ I had to sing in Maithili language, which is one of the native languages of Bihar.
- These are as important contribution to the Maithili literature as are the writings of upper caste.
Origin
Sanskrit (as an adjective), from Mithilā, a place in northern Bihar.