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
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
7.40 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
7.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
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
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
1209 A.D.
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
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 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
kok
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
kok
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
kok
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
goan1235
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
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.