Countries
India
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Asam Sahitya Sabha
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Marathi
Bengali and Oriya
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5252
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1611
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3641
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Bengali
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskar
nomoskaar
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
ḍhonyobaaḍ
How Are You?
kaso assa?
aapuni kene aase?
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
subhoraattri
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
subha gadhuli
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
subha abeli
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
suprobhaat
Please
Chike
anugroha kori
Sorry
Maf kor
moi ḍukkhita
Bye
Adeus
biḍai
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
kyoma koribo
Dialect 1
Antruz
Kamrupi
Where They Speak
Goa
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Goalpariya
Where They Speak
-
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Bhakatiya
Where They Speak
-
Assam
How Many People Speak
7.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million15.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
French Name
konkani
assamais
German Name
Konkani
Assamesisch
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Assamese people
Origin
1209 A.D.
7th century A.D
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Kamarupa
Standard Forms
Kokani
Assamese
Language Position
2365
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Assamese
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
as
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
asm
ISO 639 2/B
kok
asm
ISO 639 3
kok
asm
ISO 639 6
kok
asm
Glottocode
goan1235
assa1263
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-