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The Maithili language has a complex verbal system, nominal declension with a few inflections, and extensive use of honoroficity. It is an Indo-Aryan language, native to the Maithili people and is spoken in the Indian state of Bihar with some speakers in Jharkhand and nearby states. The language has a large number of speakers in Nepal too, which is second in number of speakers after Bihar, grouped under Bihari languages and Nepalese languages, often disputed by many linguists. Maithili has the following characteristic morphological features: Number is not grammatically marked. Gender distinctions are also absent in verbs and pronouns, only marked optionally in nominals. There is a lexical distinction of gender in the third person pronoun, that is only among animate and inanimate classes. Transitive verbs are distinguished from intransitive verbs.