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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

India

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

India

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia

1.6 Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.7 Regulated By

Govenment of Goa

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
  • Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.

1.9 Similar To

Marathi

1.10 Derived From

Sanskrit Language

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

52
Rank: 31 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

16
Rank: 13 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Devanagari

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

4 weeks
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Namaskar

3.2 Thank You

Dev Borem Korum

3.3 How Are You?

kaso assa?

3.4 Good Night

Rati Boren Zavonn

3.5 Good Evening

Sanj Borem Zavonn

3.6 Good Afternoon

Not Available

3.7 Good Morning

Dis Borem Zavonn

3.8 Please

Chike

3.9 Sorry

Maf kor

3.10 Bye

Adeus

3.11 I Love You

hav tujo mog korta.

3.12 Excuse Me

upkar korxi

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Antruz

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Goa

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Not present

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Not Available

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Not present

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Not Available

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

1
Rank: 1 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

7.40 million
Rank: 64 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.11 %
Rank: 53 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

7.40 million
Rank: 56 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Kōṅkaṇī

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese

5.3.4 French Name

konkani

5.3.5 German Name

Konkani

5.4 Pronunciation

kõkɳi

5.5 Ethnicity

Konkanis

6 History

6.1 Origin

1209 A.D.

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Not Available

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Kokani

6.3.3 Language Position

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Indian Signing System (ISS)

6.4 Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

No data available

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

kok

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

kok

7.3 ISO 639 3

kok

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

goan1235

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Konkani

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Konkani Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Konkani Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Konkani. Konkani phonology gives Konkani vowels and Konkani consonants. There are 16 vowels and 36 consonants in Konkani language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Konkani is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Konkani language is given in detail in this section.

All Konkani countries

Want to explore all Konkani countries? About Konkani language serves you with all Konkani Speaking Countries. Countries that use Konkani as official language are called as Konkani countries.

  • Countries that use Konkani as their National Language are: India.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Konkani as second language are: Konkani is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Konkani greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Konkani Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Konkani language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Konkani language.Learn Konkani greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Namaskar
  • Thank you: Dev Borem Korum
  • Good Morning: Dis Borem Zavonn
  • Good Evening: Sanj Borem Zavonn
  • Good Afternoon: Not Available

All Konkani Language Codes

Get to know all Konkani language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Konkani Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.