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
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Marathi
Bengali Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5247
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
168
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3631
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks18 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskar
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
kaso assa?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
Chike
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
Maf kor
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
Adeus
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Antruz
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
Goa
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Kharwa
Where They Speak
-
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Surati
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
7.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
18
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.40 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.74 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.40 million50.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million55.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
konkani
goudjrati
German Name
Konkani
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Gujaratis
Origin
1209 A.D.
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Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Kokani
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
2323
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Gujarati
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
guj
ISO 639 2/B
kok
guj
ISO 639 3
kok
guj
ISO 639 6
kok
guj
Glottocode
goan1235
guja1252
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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