Maithili_Wikipedia

Maithili Wikipedia

Maithili Wikipedia

Maithili language version of Wikipedia

The Maithili Wikipedia is the Maithili language version of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. The site was launched on November 6, 2014.[1] As of April 2024, it has 14,101 articles and 14,200 registered users. Today, Maithili is written in the Devanagari script [2] and the site uses the same. Maithili is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Bihar and Jharkhand states of India and is one of the 22 recognised Indian languages[3][4][5] 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.[6][7]

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The process of creating a Maithili language Wikipedia started in 2008.[1][8]

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References

  1. [1]
    थारु, बुनु. "जनकपुरका युवा जसले मैथिली विकिपिडियाको सुरुवात गरे". eKantipur (in Nepali).
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    Yadava, Y. P. (2013). Linguistic context and language endangerment in Nepal. Nepalese Linguistics 28 Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine: 262–274.
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    "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2018-08-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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    "Prakash Javadekar likely to call meeting of experts to promote Maithili script - मैथिली लिपि को बढ़ावा देने के लिए विशेषज्ञों की जल्द ही बैठक बुला सकते हैं प्रकाश जावड़ेकर". Archived from the original on 21 March 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
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    "मैथिली को भी मिलेगा दूसरी राजभाषा का दर्जा".
  6. [6]
    "Nepal". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
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    Sah, K. K. (2013). "Some perspectives on Maithili". Nepalese Linguistics (28): 179–188.
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    जोशी, यज्ञराज (3 June 2019). "मैथिली विकिपिडिया स्थापना गरेर जो विश्वका १८ योगदानकर्ताभित्र छानिए". nepalkhabar (in Nepali).
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    "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved April 26, 2022.
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