Countries
India
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
Myanmar
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Mon
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Myanmar Language Commission
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Marathi
Thai Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5233
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3633
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Tangut
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
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskar
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
kaso assa?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
Chike
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
Maf kor
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
Adeus
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Antruz
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Goa
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
-
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Intha
Where They Speak
-
Burma
How Many People Speak
7.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
15
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million43.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
konkani
birman
German Name
Konkani
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Bamar people
Origin
1209 A.D.
1113 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Kokani
Modern Burmese
Language Position
2343
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
mya
ISO 639 2/B
kok
bur
ISO 639 3
kok
mya
ISO 639 6
kok
mya
Glottocode
goan1235
sout3159
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating