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
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Marathi
Derived From
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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
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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
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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
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Chinese and Konkani Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chinese and Konkani greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Konkani language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Konkani word for "Thank You" is Dev Borem Korum. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Konkani Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Konkani Difficulty
The Chinese vs Konkani difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Konkani Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chinese and Konkani are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Konkani, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Konkani time required is 4 weeks.