1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
2.4 National Language
2.5 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.6 Speaking Continents
2.7 Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.8 Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Govenment of Goa
2.9 Interesting Facts
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
2.10 Similar To
2.11 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
4.8 Phonology
4.8.1 How Many Vowels
4.8.2 How Many Consonants
4.9 Scripts
4.10 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
4.11 Hard to Learn
4.11.1 Language Levels
4.11.2 Time Taken to Learn
5 Greetings
5.1 Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Namaskar
5.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Dev Borem Korum
5.3 How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
kaso assa?
5.4 Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Rati Boren Zavonn
5.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Sanj Borem Zavonn
5.6 Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
Not Available
5.7 Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Dis Borem Zavonn
5.8 Please
5.9 Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Maf kor
5.10 Bye
5.11 I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
hav tujo mog korta.
5.12 Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
upkar korxi
6 Dialects
6.1 Dialect 1
6.1.1 Where They Speak
6.1.2 How Many People Speak
790,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
6.2 Dialect 2
6.2.1 Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Not Available
6.2.2 How Many People Speak
6.3 Dialect 3
6.3.1 Where They Speak
6.3.2 How Many People Speak
1.4 Total No. Of Dialects
2 How Many People Speak
2.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million7.40 million
0.13
1200
3.3 Speaking Population
3.5 Native Speakers
25.00 million7.40 million
0.13
873
3.5.2 Second Language Speakers
3.8.2 Native Name
3.8.3 Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
3.8.4 French Name
3.8.5 German Name
3.9 Pronunciation
3.10 Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Konkanis
4 History
4.1 Origin
4.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
4.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
4.2.2 Branch
4.3 Language Forms
4.3.1 Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
4.3.2 Standard Forms
4.3.3 Language Position
4.3.5 Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Indian Signing System (ISS)
4.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
5 Code
5.1 ISO 639 1
5.2 ISO 639 2
5.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
5.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
5.3 ISO 639 3
5.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Glottocode
5.6 Linguasphere
5.7 Types of Language
5.7.1 Language Type
5.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
5.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available