Eastern Maithili

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| name = Eastern Maithili

| familycolor = Indo-European

| nativename = 𑒣𑒴𑒩𑒥𑒲 𑒧𑒻𑒟𑒱𑒪𑒲 • पूरबी मैथिली

| states = India

| region = Mithila

| ethnicity = Maithils

| speakers = {{sigfig|11,116|3}}

| date = 2011

| glottoname = Eastern Maithili

| fam2 = Indo-Iranian

| fam3 = Indo-Aryan

| fam4 = Eastern

| fam5 = Bihari

| fam6 = Maithili

| glotto = east2315

| iso3 = mai

| altname = Purbi Maithili

| script = Tirhuta and Devanagari

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| photo1a = Purbi Maithili written in Tirhuta script.png

| size = 250

| spacing = 2

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| Bold = 100

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| imagecaption = Purbi Maithili written in Tirhuta script

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Eastern Maithili or Purbi Maithili is a dialect of Maithili language, spoken primarily in Mithila region of India. It is mainly spoken in Purnia division of Bihar, India.{{Cite web |last=George Abraham |first=Grierson |date=1909 |title=An introduction to Maithili language |url=https://archive.org/details/introductiontoma00grierich/page/n17/mode/2up?view=theater}}{{Cite web |title=Language-Maithili-Eastern |url=https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/13320 |website=GlobalRecordings.net}} It has almost 11,116 speakers according to the 2011 census of India.{{Cite web |title=Language census of India 2011 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/42458/download/46089/C-16_25062018.pdf}} It is very similar to the Angika dialect of Maithili, which is spoken in the Bhagalpur and Dumka regions. Like its neighbor Bengali, it is phonetically characterized by a rounded 'a' sound (halfway between 'a' and 'o', similar to the 'o' in the Bengali name 'Subroto') at the end of certain words.{{Cite web |title=Maithili Variations |url=http://lisindia.ciil.org/Maithili/Maith_vari.html |website=lisindia.ciil.org |publisher=Central Institute of Indian Languages}}