Countries
India
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Total No. Of Countries
16
0
46
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National Language
India
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
Similar To
Marathi
German and English Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5226
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
166
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3621
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskar
Hallo
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
dankjewel
How Are You?
kaso assa?
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
goede Nacht
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
goedemiddag
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
goedemorgen
Please
Chike
alsjeblieft
Sorry
Maf kor
sorry
Bye
Adeus
vaarwel
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
Ik hou van jou
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
pardon
Dialect 1
Antruz
Gronings
Where They Speak
Goa
Netherlands
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
-
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Limburgian
Where They Speak
-
Belgium, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
7.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
17
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.32 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million22.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
Nederlands
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
konkani
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Konkani
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Dutch people
Origin
1209 A.D.
AD 450-500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Kokani
Standard Dutch
Language Position
2348
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
nl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
nld
ISO 639 2/B
kok
dut
ISO 639 3
kok
nld
ISO 639 6
kok
nld
Glottocode
goan1235
mode1257
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic