Countries
India
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
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
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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Marathi
Kannada Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5251
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1616
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3635
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskar
Namaskara
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
kaso assa?
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
yedde rathre
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
yedde kaande
Please
Chike
Daya maltadu
Sorry
Maf kor
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
Adeus
Barpe
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Antruz
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
Goa
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Jain
Where They Speak
-
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Girijan
Where They Speak
-
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
7.002.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
14
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million1.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million1.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
Tulu
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
konkani
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German Name
Konkani
Tulu
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Tuluva
Origin
1209 A.D.
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kokani
Tulu
Language Position
2323
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
kok
tul
ISO 639 3
kok
tcy
ISO 639 6
kok
tcy
Glottocode
goan1235
tulu1258
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
-
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