Countries
India
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
India
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Marathi
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskar
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
kaso assa?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Not Available
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Chike
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Maf kor
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Adeus
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Antruz
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Goa
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
7.40 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
  
Russki
  
French Name
konkani
  
russe
  
German Name
Konkani
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Konkanis
  
Russians
  
Origin
1209 A.D.
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Kokani
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kok
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
kok
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
kok
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
goan1235
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Konkani and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Konkani and Russian language. Konkani word for "Hello" is Namaskar or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Konkani Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Konkani vs Russian Difficulty
The Konkani vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Konkani Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Konkani and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Konkani is 4 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.