Countries
Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
India
Total No. Of Countries
3
12
1
14
National Language
Malaysia
India
Second Language
Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Thailand
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Govenment of Goa
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Indonesian Language
Marathi
Derived From
Tamil Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
26
8
52
31
Phonology
How Many Vowels
6
3
16
13
How Many Consonants
24
14
36
26
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
6
5
3
2
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks
10
4 weeks
2
Greetings
Hello
Hai
Namaskar
Thank You
terima kasih
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
kaso assa?
Good Night
Selamat Malam
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
Not Available
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
sila
Chike
Sorry
maaf
Maf kor
Bye
Selamat tinggal
Adeus
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
upkar korxi
Dialects
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Antruz
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Goa
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
25
Not Available
Dialect 2
Pekal
Not present
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Not Available
How Many People Speak
30,000.00
40
Not Available
Dialect 3
Musi
Not present
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Not Available
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
11
Not Available
Total No. Of Dialects
24
20
1
1
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
10
7.40 million
99+
Speaking Population
1.16 %
14
0.11 %
99+
Native Speakers
77.00 million
12
7.40 million
99+
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million
8
Not Available
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Not Available
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
malais
konkani
German Name
Malaiisch
Konkani
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Not Available
Konkanis
History
Origin
c. 683 AD
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
No early forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Kokani
Language Position
54
39
Not Available
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
ms
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
msa
kok
ISO 639 2/B
may
kok
ISO 639 3
zsm
kok
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
stan1306
goan1235
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available
