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