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Countries

Countries
India

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
India

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents
Asia

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By
Govenment of Goa

Interesting Facts
  • Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
  • Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.

Similar To
Marathi

Derived From
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200

Alphabets
52 31

Phonology

How Many Vowels
16 13

How Many Consonants
36 26

Scripts
Devanagari

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks 2

Greetings

Hello
Namaskar

Thank You
Dev Borem Korum

How Are You?
kaso assa?

Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn

Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn

Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा

Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn

Please
Chike

Sorry
Maf kor

Bye
Adeus

I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.

Excuse Me
upkar korxi

Dialects

Dialect 1
Antruz

Where They Speak
Goa

How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00 53

Dialect 2
Not present

Where They Speak
-

How Many People Speak
2,700,000.00 52

Dialect 3
Not present

Where They Speak
-

How Many People Speak
7.00 86

Total No. Of Dialects
1 1

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
7.40 million 64

Speaking Population
0.11 % 56

Native Speakers
7.40 million 56

Second Language Speakers
8.00 million 44

Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī

Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese

French Name
konkani

German Name
Konkani

Pronunciation
kõkɳi

Ethnicity
Konkanis

History

Origin
1209 A.D.

Language Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup
-

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms
Kokani

Language Position
23 21

Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)

Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
kok

ISO 639 2/B
kok

ISO 639 3
kok

ISO 639 6
kok

Glottocode
goan1235

Linguasphere
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology
-

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Know Alphabets in Konkani

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Konkani Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Konkani Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Konkani. Konkani phonology gives Konkani vowels and Konkani consonants. There are 16 vowels and 36 consonants in Konkani language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Konkani is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Konkani language is given in detail in this section.

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All Konkani countries

Want to explore all Konkani countries? About Konkani language serves you with all Konkani Speaking Countries. Countries that use Konkani as official language are called as Konkani countries.

  • Countries that use Konkani as their National Language are: India.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Konkani as second language are: Konkani is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Konkani greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Konkani Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Konkani language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Konkani language.Learn Konkani greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Namaskar
  • Thank you: Dev Borem Korum
  • Good Morning: Dis Borem Zavonn
  • Good Evening: Sanj Borem Zavonn
  • Good Afternoon: संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा

All Konkani Language Codes

Get to know all Konkani language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Konkani Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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