Countries
India
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
India
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Marathi
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5226
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1624
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3623
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskar
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
kaso assa?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Chike
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Maf kor
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Adeus
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Antruz
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Goa
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Wu
Where They Speak
-
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Yue
Where They Speak
-
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
7.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
110
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
konkani
chinois
German Name
Konkani
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Han
Origin
1209 A.D.
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kokani
Standard Chinese
Language Position
231
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
zho
ISO 639 2/B
kok
chi
ISO 639 3
kok
zho
ISO 639 6
kok
zho
Glottocode
goan1235
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating