Countries
India
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
India, Pakistan, Sindh
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
Similar To
Marathi
Gujarati
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5264
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1610
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3642
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic, Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskar
Assalam O Alaikum
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
Meharbani
How Are You?
kaso assa?
Kehra haal aahin
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
tava kia aayo
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Sham Jo Salam
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Assalam o Alaikum
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
Subho Bakhair
Please
Chike
Mehrbani
Sorry
Maf kor
Moon khe afsos aahe
Bye
Adeus
Allah Wahi
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
Maaf Kajo
Dialect 1
Antruz
Siraiki
Where They Speak
Goa
Upper Sindh
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.0025,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Vicholi
Where They Speak
-
Central Sindh
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.0025,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Lari
Where They Speak
-
Lower Sindh
How Many People Speak
7.0025.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
16
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million29.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.39 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
سنڌي
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Sindhi
French Name
konkani
sindhi
German Name
Konkani
Sindhi-Sprache
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[sɪndi]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Sindhi people
Origin
1209 A.D.
711 A.D
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Sindhi and Middle Sindhi
Standard Forms
Kokani
Sindhi
Language Position
2350
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Sindhi
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
sd
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
snd
ISO 639 2/B
kok
snd
ISO 639 3
kok
snd
ISO 639 6
kok
snd
Glottocode
goan1235
sind1272
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
-
-