Countries
India
  
Myanmar
  
National Language
India
  
Myanmar
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Mon
  
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
  
Myanmar Language Commission
  
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
  
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  
Similar To
Marathi
  
Thai Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Pali Language
  
Alphabets in
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Tangut
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskar
  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
How Are You?
kaso assa?
  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Good Afternoon
Not Available
  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Please
Chike
  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Sorry
Maf kor
  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Bye
Adeus
  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Dialect 1
Antruz
  
Arakanese
  
Where They Speak
Goa
  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,000,000.00
  
24
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Tavoyan
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Intha
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Burma
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million
  
99+
43.00 million
  
30
Native Speakers
7.40 million
  
99+
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
French Name
konkani
  
birman
  
German Name
Konkani
  
Birmanisch
  
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Konkanis
  
Bamar people
  
Origin
1209 A.D.
  
1113 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Standard Forms
Kokani
  
Modern Burmese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Burmese sign language
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
my
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kok
  
mya
  
ISO 639 2/B
kok
  
bur
  
ISO 639 3
kok
  
mya
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
goan1235
  
sout3159
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Konkani and Burmese Speaking population
Konkani and Burmese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Konkani and Burmese languages can be compared. The total count of Konkani and Burmese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Konkani language is 0.11 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Konkani and Burmese on Konkani vs Burmese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Konkani and Burmese Language Codes
Konkani and Burmese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Konkani and Burmese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.