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
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Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
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
Not Available
Dialect 3
Levantine
Not present
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
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
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Not Available
Branch
North Arabic
Not Available
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
goan1235
Linguasphere
12-AAC
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available
Arabic and Konkani Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Arabic and Konkani greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Konkani language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Konkani word for "Thank You" is Dev Borem Korum. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Konkani Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Konkani Difficulty
The Arabic vs Konkani difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic Alphabets and Konkani Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Arabic and Konkani are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Konkani, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Konkani time required is 4 weeks.