National Language
India
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
NA
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Marathi
Bengali Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
Hello
Namaskar
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
kaso assa?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
Not Available
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
Chike
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
Maf kor
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Antruz
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
Goa
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Dialect 2
Not present
Kharwa
Where They Speak
Not Available
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Dialect 3
Not present
Not Available
Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
konkani
goudjrati
German Name
Konkani
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Gujaratis
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Kokani
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Not Available
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
gu
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
goan1235
guja1252
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Konkani and Gujarati Speaking population
Konkani and Gujarati speaking population is one of the factors based on which Konkani and Gujarati languages can be compared. The total count of Konkani and Gujarati Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Konkani language is 0.11 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Gujarati language is 0.74 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Konkani and Gujarati on Konkani vs Gujarati where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Konkani and Gujarati Language Codes
Konkani and Gujarati language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Konkani and Gujarati Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.