Countries
India
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Marathi
Hindi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5248
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1612
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3636
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskar
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
kaso assa?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Chike
कृपया
Sorry
Maf kor
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Adeus
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Antruz
Doteli
Where They Speak
Goa
Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
-
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
-
Nepal
How Many People Speak
7.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
112
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
konkani
népalais
German Name
Konkani
Nepali
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
1209 A.D.
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Kokani
Nepali
Language Position
2359
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
nep
ISO 639 2/B
kok
nep
ISO 639 3
kok
npi
ISO 639 6
kok
nep
Glottocode
goan1235
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative