Countries
India
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
India
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Marathi
Not Available
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
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Scripts
Devanagari
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
Namaskar
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
kaso assa?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Not Available
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
早安 (Zǎo ān)
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Antruz
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Goa
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Not Available
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not present
Yue
Where They Speak
Not Available
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Not Available
French Name
konkani
chinois
German Name
Konkani
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
Not Available
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Not Available
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Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kokani
Standard Chinese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
zh
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
goan1235
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating
Konkani and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Konkani and Chinese language. Konkani word for "Hello" is Namaskar or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Konkani Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Konkani vs Chinese Difficulty
The Konkani vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Konkani Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Konkani and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Konkani is 4 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.