Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
India
  
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 in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
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
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Musi
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
  
10
7.40 million
  
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
  
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
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
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
  
Malaysian and Konkani 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 Malaysian and Konkani greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Konkani language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Konkani word for "Thank You" is Dev Borem Korum. Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Konkani Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malaysian vs Konkani Difficulty
The Malaysian vs Konkani difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian Alphabets and Konkani 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 Malaysian and Konkani are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Konkani, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Konkani time required is 4 weeks.