Countries
Fiji, India
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Govenment of Goa
Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Urdu
Marathi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4452
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1116
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3336
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Namaskar
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
kaso assa?
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Chike
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
Maf kor
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
Adeus
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Antruz
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
Goa
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Marwari
Not present
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
-
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bundeli
Not present
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
-
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
211
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.70 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
हिन्दी
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
hindi
konkani
German Name
Hindi
Konkani
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Konkanis
Origin
7th Century
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Kokani
Language Position
523
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
hi
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
kok
ISO 639 2/B
hin
kok
ISO 639 3
hin
kok
ISO 639 6
hins
kok
Glottocode
hind1269
goan1235
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
-