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Countries

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

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9952
18 247
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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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Greetings

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

Dialects

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
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Not present

Where They Speak

kansai
-

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.007.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

311
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million7.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.11 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million7.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million8.00 million
0.01 400
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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

History

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

Code

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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Japanese and Konkani Alphabets

Japanese and Konkani Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Konkani. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Konkani Alphabets there are 52 letters. To learn Japanese and Konkani languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Konkani languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Konkani greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Konkani are Most Spoken Languages.

All Japanese and Konkani Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Japanese and Konkani dialects. Various dialects of Japanese and Konkani language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Japanese are spoken in different Japanese Speaking Countries whereas Konkani Dialects are spoken in different Konkani speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Japanese vs Konkani Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Japanese dialects include: Sanuki, Hakata. Konkani dialects include: Antruz Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Japanese and Konkani Speaking population

Japanese and Konkani speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Konkani languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Konkani Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % 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 Japanese and Konkani on Japanese vs Konkani where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Konkani Language Codes

Japanese and Konkani language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Japanese and Konkani Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.