Countries
India
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
National Language
India
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Marathi
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
متشکرم
How Are You?
kaso assa?
چطور هستید?
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
شب بخیر
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
Not Available
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
صبح به خیر
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Antruz
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Goa
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Not present
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Not Available
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not present
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Not Available
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
فارسی
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
konkani
persan
German Name
Konkani
Persisch
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Persian people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Iranian
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Kokani
Persian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
fa
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
goan1235
fars1254
Linguasphere
No data available
58-AAC-c
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Synthetic
Konkani and Persian Speaking population
Konkani and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Konkani and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Konkani and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Konkani language is 0.11 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. 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 Persian on Konkani vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Konkani and Persian Language Codes
Konkani and Persian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Konkani and Persian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.