Countries
India
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
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Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Marathi
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5221
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
165
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3619
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskar
Bwakeye
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
Urakoze
How Are You?
kaso assa?
Urakomeye?
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
Mwaramutse
Please
Chike
Ndagusavye
Sorry
Maf kor
Ndasubiza
Bye
Adeus
N’agasaga
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Antruz
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Goa
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Ha
Where They Speak
-
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Shubi
Where They Speak
-
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
7.00153,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
16
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million8.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
konkani
rundi
German Name
Konkani
Kirundi
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
1209 A.D.
1500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kokani
Kirundi
Language Position
2386
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
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ISO 639 1
No data available
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
run
ISO 639 2/B
kok
run
ISO 639 3
kok
run
ISO 639 6
kok
run
Glottocode
goan1235
rund1242
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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