Countries
India
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
India
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- Bengali language is the World's sweetest language.
- 21st February is celebrated as an International Mother Language day, which is based on Bengali language.
Similar To
Marathi
Assamese and Oriya
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5251
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1611
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3640
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskar
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
How Are You?
kaso assa?
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
Please
Chike
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
Sorry
Maf kor
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
Bye
Adeus
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
Dialect 1
Antruz
Chakma
Where They Speak
Goa
Bangladesh, Burma, India
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00330,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Hajong
Where They Speak
-
Bangladesh, India
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.0071,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Rarhi
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
7.00230,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
125
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million215.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %3.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million196.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million19.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
French Name
konkani
bengali
German Name
Konkani
Bengali
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[ˈbeŋɡali]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Bengalis (Bengali people)
Origin
1209 A.D.
1000–1200 CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Abahatta, Old Bengali
Standard Forms
Kokani
Bengali
Language Position
234
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Bengali
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
bn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
ben
ISO 639 2/B
kok
ben
ISO 639 3
kok
ben
ISO 639 6
kok
ben
Glottocode
goan1235
beng1280
Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAF-u
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-