Countries
India
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Marathi
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5237
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
165
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3646
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskar
Mhoro
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
Waita zvako
How Are You?
kaso assa?
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Manheru
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Masikati
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
Mangwanani
Please
Chike
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
Maf kor
Ndineurombo
Bye
Adeus
bye
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Antruz
Hwesa
Where They Speak
Goa
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Karanga
Where They Speak
-
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Zezuru
Where They Speak
-
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
7.0016.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
14
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million8.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
chiShona
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
konkani
shona
German Name
Konkani
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Shona people
Origin
1209 A.D.
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Kokani
Standard Shona
Language Position
23107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
sna
ISO 639 2/B
kok
sna
ISO 639 3
kok
sna
ISO 639 6
kok
sna
Glottocode
goan1235
core1255
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
-
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