Countries
India
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
India
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
  
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Marathi
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskar
  
Hai
  
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
kaso assa?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
Not Available
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
Chike
  
sila
  
Sorry
Maf kor
  
maaf
  
Bye
Adeus
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Antruz
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Goa
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million
  
99+
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
7.40 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
  
Not Available
  
French Name
konkani
  
malais
  
German Name
Konkani
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Konkanis
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1209 A.D.
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Kokani
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kok
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
kok
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
kok
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
goan1235
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Konkani and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Konkani and Malaysian language. Konkani word for "Hello" is Namaskar or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Konkani Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Konkani vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Konkani vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Konkani Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Konkani and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Konkani is 4 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.