Countries
India
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Marathi
Dutch Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5232
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1615
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3617
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskar
hallo
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
Dankie
How Are You?
kaso assa?
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
goeie nag
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Goeie middag
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
goeie more
Please
Chike
asseblief
Sorry
Maf kor
jammer
Bye
Adeus
Totsiens
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Antruz
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Goa
-
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
-
Namibia
How Many People Speak
7.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Cape Dutch
French Name
konkani
afrikaans
German Name
Konkani
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Afrikaners
Origin
1209 A.D.
17th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Kokani
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
2323
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
afr
ISO 639 2/B
kok
afr
ISO 639 3
kok
afr
ISO 639 6
kok
afrs
Glottocode
goan1235
afri1274
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic