 It is very similar to Bengali–Assamese script, with most consonants being effectively identical in appearance.For the most part, writing in Maithili has switched to the Devanagari script, which is used to write neighboring Central Indic languages to the west and north such as Hindi and Nepali, and the number of people with a working knowledge of Tirhuta has dropped considerably in recent years.Before 14th CE, Tirhuta was exclusively used to write Sanskrit, later Maithili was written in this script.