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
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Scripts
Devanagari
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
goan1235
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
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.