National Language
India
Myanmar
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Mon
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Myanmar Language Commission
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Marathi
Thai Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Tangut
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Namaskar
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
kaso assa?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
Not Available
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
Chike
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
Maf kor
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
Adeus
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Antruz
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Goa
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Not present
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Not Available
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not present
Intha
Where They Speak
Not Available
Burma
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
konkani
birman
German Name
Konkani
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
Not Available
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Bamar people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Kokani
Modern Burmese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
my
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
goan1235
sout3159
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating
Konkani and Burmese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Konkani and Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Konkani and Burmese language. Konkani word for "Hello" is Namaskar or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Konkani Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Konkani vs Burmese Difficulty
The Konkani vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Konkani Alphabets and Burmese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Konkani and Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Konkani and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Konkani is 4 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.