Countries
Japan
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Japan
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia
Minority Language
Palau
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Govenment of Goa
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Korean Language
Marathi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9952
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
516
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1436
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Namaskar
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
kaso assa?
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Chike
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Maf kor
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
Adeus
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Antruz
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Goa
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Not present
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
-
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kansai
Not present
Where They Speak
kansai
-
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
311
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
日本語
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
japonais
konkani
German Name
Japanisch
Konkani
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Konkanis
Origin
1185
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Japanese
Kokani
Language Position
823
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ja
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
kok
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
kok
ISO 639 3
jpn
kok
ISO 639 6
jpn
kok
Glottocode
nucl1643
goan1235
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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