Countries
India
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Marathi
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5247
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
168
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3622
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskar
pranam
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
dhanyabad
How Are You?
kaso assa?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
Śubharātri
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
Suprabhaat
Please
Chike
kripaya
Sorry
Maf kor
maf karai
Bye
Adeus
Alavidā
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
kripaya
Dialect 1
Antruz
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Goa
Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Madhubani
Where They Speak
-
North India
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Khortha
Where They Speak
-
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
7.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
115
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million32.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.41 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million27.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
konkani
maithili
German Name
Konkani
Maithili
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Maithil
Origin
1209 A.D.
14th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kokani
Standard Maithili
Language Position
2340
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
mai
ISO 639 2/B
kok
mai
ISO 639 3
kok
mai
ISO 639 6
kok
mai
Glottocode
goan1235
mait1250
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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