Countries
India
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
India
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Marathi
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5232
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
166
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3623
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskar
سلام
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
متشکرم
How Are You?
kaso assa?
چطور هستید?
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
شب بخیر
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
صبح به خیر
Please
Chike
لطفا
Sorry
Maf kor
متاسف
Bye
Adeus
خدا حافظ
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Antruz
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Goa
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
-
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.0012,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
-
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
7.007,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
112
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million65.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million65.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
فارسی
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
konkani
persan
German Name
Konkani
Persisch
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Persian people
Origin
1209 A.D.
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Kokani
Persian
Language Position
2323
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
fa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
fas
ISO 639 2/B
kok
per
ISO 639 3
kok
pes
ISO 639 6
kok
pers
Glottocode
goan1235
fars1254
Linguasphere
No data available
58-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic