Countries
India
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Central Hindi Directorate
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Marathi
Urdu
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5244
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1611
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3633
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskar
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
kaso assa?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
Chike
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
Maf kor
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
Adeus
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Antruz
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Goa
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Marwari
Where They Speak
-
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Bundeli
Where They Speak
-
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
7.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
121
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
konkani
hindi
German Name
Konkani
Hindi
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Hindustani people
Origin
1209 A.D.
7th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kokani
Standard Hindi
Language Position
235
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
hin
ISO 639 2/B
kok
hin
ISO 639 3
kok
hin
ISO 639 6
kok
hins
Glottocode
goan1235
hind1269
Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic