Multilingualism and Language Contact in Maithili: Trends, Traits and Impact in Sociolinguistic Spaces

This paper presents various trends, traits and impact of language contact in Maithili spoken the Kathmandu valley. The data were gathered through survey key informant interviews with speakers focused-language observations communities parts Drawing on such data, this reports expanding instances among Maithili. It also illustrates causes impacts rapidly emerging multilingual sociolinguistic spaces, especially findings showed that native living had higher Nepali English, formal situations. Such practices influenced shaped by their ideological orientations towards globalization willingness to attend diverse contexts caused growing migration.