Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
India
  
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Govenment of Goa
  
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Marathi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Namaskar
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
Dev Borem Korum
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
kaso assa?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
Rati Boren Zavonn
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
Sanj Borem Zavonn
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Dis Borem Zavonn
  
Please
من فضلك
  
Chike
  
Sorry
آسف
  
Maf kor
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Adeus
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
hav tujo mog korta.
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
upkar korxi
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Antruz
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Goa
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
7.40 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
7.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Kōṅkaṇī
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
  
French Name
arabe
  
konkani
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Konkani
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
kõkɳi
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Konkanis
  
Origin
512 CE
  
1209 A.D.
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Kokani
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
kok
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
kok
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
kok
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
goan1235
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available