Countries
India
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
Iran
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
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Balochi Academy, 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.
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
Similar To
Marathi
Kurdish and Persian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5234
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
168
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3626
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskar
Salam
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
mana bebahgsh
How Are You?
kaso assa?
chone tao?
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
jawáin shap
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
jawáin begáh
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
سلام علیکم
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
jawáin sawáh
Please
Chike
Mihrabani kan
Sorry
Maf kor
bebaksh / bebagsh
Bye
Adeus
bye
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
Tu mana doost biyeh
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
mana bebahgsh
Dialect 1
Antruz
Eastern Balochi
Where They Speak
Goa
Pakistan
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Western Balochi
Where They Speak
-
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Southern Balochi
Where They Speak
-
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
How Many People Speak
7.003,400,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million7.60 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million8.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
بلوچی
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Baluchi
French Name
konkani
baloutchi
German Name
Konkani
Belutschisch
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[bəˈloʧi]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
Origin
1209 A.D.
19th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kokani
Balochi
Language Position
2339
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Balochi Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
bal
ISO 639 2/B
kok
bal
ISO 639 3
kok
bal
ISO 639 6
kok
bal
Glottocode
goan1235
balo1260
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-