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Konkani Language



Countries

Countries
India

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
India

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents
Asia

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By
Govenment of Goa

Interesting Facts
  • Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
  • Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.

Similar To
Marathi

Derived From
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200

Alphabets
52 31

Phonology

How Many Vowels
16 13

How Many Consonants
36 26

Scripts
Devanagari

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks 2

Greetings

Hello
Namaskar

Thank You
Dev Borem Korum

How Are You?
kaso assa?

Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn

Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn

Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा

Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn

Please
Chike

Sorry
Maf kor

Bye
Adeus

I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.

Excuse Me
upkar korxi

Dialects

Dialect 1
Antruz

Where They Speak
Goa

How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00 53

Dialect 2
Not present

Where They Speak
-

How Many People Speak
2,700,000.00 52

Dialect 3
Not present

Where They Speak
-

How Many People Speak
7.00 86

Total No. Of Dialects
1 1

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
7.40 million 64

Speaking Population
0.11 % 56

Native Speakers
7.40 million 56

Second Language Speakers
8.00 million 44

Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī

Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese

French Name
konkani

German Name
Konkani

Pronunciation
kõkɳi

Ethnicity
Konkanis

History

Origin
1209 A.D.

Language Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup
-

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms
Kokani

Language Position
23 21

Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)

Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
kok

ISO 639 2/B
kok

ISO 639 3
kok

ISO 639 6
kok

Glottocode
goan1235

Linguasphere
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology
-

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Origin of Konkani language

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Konkani population

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Konkani writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Konkani writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Konkani language. Some languages share common writing systems. Devanagari script is used by Konkani language. Learn more about . 

Information about Konkani language

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