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
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskar
  
سلام
  
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
  
Please
Chike
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
Maf kor
  
متاسف
  
Bye
Adeus
  
خدا حافظ
  
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
  
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
7.40 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
17
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
  
Origin
1209 A.D.
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
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 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kok
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
kok
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
kok
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
goan1235
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Konkani and Persian 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 Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Konkani and Persian language. Konkani word for "Hello" is Namaskar or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Konkani Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Konkani vs Persian Difficulty
The Konkani vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Konkani Alphabets and Persian 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 Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Konkani and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Konkani is 4 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.