Countries
India
  
Georgia
  
National Language
India
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
  
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
Similar To
Marathi
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskar
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
kaso assa?
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
Not Available
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
Chike
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
Maf kor
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
Adeus
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Antruz
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
Goa
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Kartli
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million
  
99+
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.40 million
  
99+
4.30 million
  
99+
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
konkani
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Konkani
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Konkanis
  
Georgians
  
Origin
1209 A.D.
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
Kokani
  
Modern Georgian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kok
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
kok
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
kok
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
goan1235
  
nucl1302
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic