Countries
Countries
India
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
China, Guangdong
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
Hawaii
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Marathi
Chinese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5228
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
168
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3620
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
Namaskar
您好
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
谢谢
How Are You?
kaso assa?
你好吗？
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
晚安
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Not Available
下午好
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
早上好
Please
Chike
请
Sorry
Maf kor
遗憾
Bye
Adeus
再见
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
我爱你
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
原谅我
Dialects
Dialect 1
Antruz
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Goa
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
NANA
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Not Available
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
NANA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Not Available
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %16.00 %
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million52.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NANA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
konkani
Not Available
German Name
Konkani
Not Available
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
Not Available
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Not Available
History
Origin
1209 A.D.
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kokani
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
NANA
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Not Available
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Not Available
Code
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
kok
Not Available
ISO 639 3
kok
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
goan1235
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available