Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
India
National Language
China, Taiwan
India
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Govenment of Goa
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Not Available
Marathi
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Namaskar
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
kaso assa?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Not Available
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Dis Borem Zavonn
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Antruz
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Goa
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Yue
Not present
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Not Available
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
chinois
konkani
German Name
Chinesisch
Konkani
Pronunciation
Not Available
kõkɳi
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
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Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Kokani
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
zh
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sini1245
goan1235
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available
Chinese and Konkani Speaking population
Chinese and Konkani speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chinese and Konkani languages can be compared. The total count of Chinese and Konkani Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Konkani language is 0.11 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Chinese and Konkani on Chinese vs Konkani where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Chinese and Konkani Language Codes
Chinese and Konkani language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chinese and Konkani Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.