Countries
India
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Marathi
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5253
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1610
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3643
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskar
Molo
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
kaso assa?
Unjani
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
Molo
Please
Chike
Ndicela
Sorry
Maf kor
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Adeus
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Antruz
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Goa
South Africa
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Thembu
Where They Speak
-
South Africa
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Hlubi
Where They Speak
-
South Africa
How Many People Speak
7.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
19
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
konkani
xhosa
German Name
Konkani
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
1209 A.D.
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kokani
isiXhosa
Language Position
2321
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
xho
ISO 639 2/B
kok
xho
ISO 639 3
kok
xho
ISO 639 6
kok
xho
Glottocode
goan1235
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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