Countries
India
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Palau
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Marathi
Korean Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5299
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
165
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3614
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskar
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
kaso assa?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Chike
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Maf kor
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Adeus
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Antruz
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Goa
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Hakata
Where They Speak
-
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Kansai
Where They Speak
-
kansai
How Many People Speak
7.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
131
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
日本語
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Nihongo
French Name
konkani
japonais
German Name
Konkani
Japanisch
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
1209 A.D.
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Kokani
Japanese
Language Position
238
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
kok
jpn
ISO 639 3
kok
jpn
ISO 639 6
kok
jpn
Glottocode
goan1235
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data available
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic