Countries
India
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
India
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Marathi
Armenian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5224
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
167
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3617
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskar
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
kaso assa?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
Chike
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
Maf kor
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
Adeus
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Antruz
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Goa
Greece
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Griko
Where They Speak
-
Italy
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Mariupol
Where They Speak
-
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
7.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
125
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
konkani
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Konkani
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
1209 A.D.
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Kokani
Modern Greek
Language Position
2374
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
ell
ISO 639 2/B
kok
gre
ISO 639 3
kok
ell
ISO 639 6
kok
ells
Glottocode
goan1235
gree1276
Linguasphere
No data available
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic