Countries
India, Pakistan
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India, Pakistan
India
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Govenment of Goa
Interesting Facts
- Punjabi is 2nd most spoken in United Kingdom and 4th most spoken in Canada.
- Punjabi is tonal language, by using various tones Punjabi speakers are able to differentiate between words.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Hindi Language
Marathi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5352
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
916
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4136
9
60
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Scripts
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)
Namaskar
Thank You
ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā)
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)
kaso assa?
Good Night
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)
Chike
Sorry
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)
Maf kor
Bye
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)
Adeus
I Love You
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Pothohari
Antruz
Where They Speak
Pakistan
Goa
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Saraiki
Not present
Where They Speak
Afganistan, India, Pakistan
-
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Doabi
Not present
Where They Speak
Pakistan, Punjab, India
-
How Many People Speak
130,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
301
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
154.30 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.44 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
100.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
54.30 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
pendjabi
konkani
German Name
Pandschabi-Sprache
Konkani
Pronunciation
Not Availble
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Punjabis
Konkanis
Origin
1000 AD
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Punjabi
Kokani
Language Position
2323
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
-
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
pa
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pan
kok
ISO 639 2/B
pan
kok
ISO 639 3
pan
kok
ISO 639 6
panj
kok
Glottocode
panj1256
goan1235
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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