Countries
India
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
India
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
  
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Marathi
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hindi.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskar
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
kaso assa?
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Not Available
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
Chike
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
Maf kor
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
Adeus
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Antruz
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
Goa
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million
  
99+
380.00 million
  
5
Native Speakers
7.40 million
  
99+
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
konkani
  
hindi
  
German Name
Konkani
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Konkanis
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
1209 A.D.
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Kokani
  
Standard Hindi
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kok
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
kok
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
kok
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
hins
  
Glottocode
goan1235
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Konkani and Hindi 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 Hindi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Konkani and Hindi language. Konkani word for "Hello" is Namaskar or Hindi word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda). Find more of such common Konkani Greetings and Hindi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Konkani vs Hindi Difficulty
The Konkani vs Hindi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Konkani Alphabets and Hindi 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 Hindi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Konkani and Hindi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Konkani is 4 weeks while to learn Hindi time required is 44 weeks.