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