Countries
India, Pakistan
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
India
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Govenment of Goa
Interesting Facts
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Marathi
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5252
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1016
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4036
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
Namaskar
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
kaso assa?
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
براہ مہربانی
Chike
Sorry
معاف کرنا
Maf kor
Bye
الوداع
Adeus
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Antruz
Where They Speak
India
Goa
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Not present
Where They Speak
India
-
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Rekhta
Not present
Where They Speak
South Asia
-
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
اُردُو
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Bihari
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
ourdou
konkani
German Name
Urdu
Konkani
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Konkanis
Origin
12th Century CE
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Kokani
Language Position
2023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ur
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
kok
ISO 639 2/B
urd
kok
ISO 639 3
urd
kok
ISO 639 6
urd
kok
Glottocode
urdu1245
goan1235
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
-