Countries
India
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
India
  
Abkhazia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Marathi
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Namaskar
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
kaso assa?
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
Not Available
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
Chike
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Maf kor
  
Not Available
  
Bye
Adeus
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Antruz
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
Goa
  
Abkhazia
  
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Caucasus
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.40 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
konkani
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Konkani
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Konkanis
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
1209 A.D.
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Kokani
  
Abkhaz
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kok
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
kok
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
kok
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
goan1235
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Konkani and Abkhaz 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 Konkani and Abkhaz greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Konkani and Abkhaz language. Konkani word for "Hello" is Namaskar or Abkhaz word for "Thank You" is Иҭабуп (It̢abup). Find more of such common Konkani Greetings and Abkhaz Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Konkani vs Abkhaz Difficulty
The Konkani vs Abkhaz difficulty level basically depends on the number of Konkani Alphabets and Abkhaz 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 Konkani and Abkhaz are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Konkani and Abkhaz, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Konkani is 4 weeks while to learn Abkhaz time required is 27 weeks.