Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
India
  
National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
Govenment of Goa
  
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
  
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Marathi
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Habari
  
Namaskar
  
Thank You
Asante
  
Dev Borem Korum
  
How Are You?
Habari gani?
  
kaso assa?
  
Good Night
Usiku mwema
  
Rati Boren Zavonn
  
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
  
Sanj Borem Zavonn
  
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
  
Dis Borem Zavonn
  
Please
tafadhali
  
Chike
  
Sorry
pole
  
Maf kor
  
Bye
bye
  
Adeus
  
I Love You
nakupenda
  
hav tujo mog korta.
  
Excuse Me
Samahani
  
upkar korxi
  
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
  
Antruz
  
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
  
Goa
  
Dialect 2
Kimrima
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Kimgao
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Kilwa
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
150.00 million
  
13
7.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
7.40 million
  
99+
Native Name
Not Available
  
Kōṅkaṇī
  
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
  
French Name
swahili
  
konkani
  
German Name
Swahili
  
Konkani
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
kõkɳi
  
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Konkanis
  
Origin
6th century
  
1209 A.D.
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Swahili
  
Kokani
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
sw
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swa
  
kok
  
ISO 639 2/B
swa
  
kok
  
ISO 639 3
swa
  
kok
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swah1254
  
goan1235
  
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Swahili 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 Swahili and Konkani greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Swahili and Konkani language. Swahili word for "Hello" is Habari or Konkani word for "Thank You" is Dev Borem Korum. Find more of such common Swahili Greetings and Konkani Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Swahili vs Konkani Difficulty
The Swahili vs Konkani difficulty level basically depends on the number of Swahili 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 Swahili and Konkani are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Swahili and Konkani, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Swahili is 36 weeks while to learn Konkani time required is 4 weeks.