Countries
Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Govenment of Goa
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Marathi
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2852
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
816
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
103
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
您好
Namaskar
Thank You
谢谢
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
你好吗？
kaso assa?
Good Night
晚安
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
晚上好
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
下午好
-9999
Good Morning
早上好
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
请
Chike
Sorry
遗憾
Maf kor
Bye
再见
Adeus
I Love You
我爱你
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
原谅我
upkar korxi
Dialects
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Antruz
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Goa
How Many People Speak
NANA
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Not present
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Not Available
How Many People Speak
NANA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Not present
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Not Available
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million7.40 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.11 %
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million7.40 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NANA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
Not Available
konkani
German Name
Not Available
Konkani
Pronunciation
Not Available
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Not Available
Konkanis
History
Origin
17th century
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Kokani
Language Position
NANA
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Not Available
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Not Available
Individual, Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
kok
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
kok
ISO 639 3
No data available
kok
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
cant1236
goan1235
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available