Indo-European · ISO 639-3 gom
Goan Konkani Language कोंकणी
Goan Konkani is an Indo-European language spoken by about 4.2 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin and Devanagari scripts.
Where Goan Konkani is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Goan Konkani
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan
- Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
- Continental Indo-Aryan
- Indo-Aryan Southern zone
- Marathic
- Marathi-Konkani
- Goan Konkani
Writing system
Latin and Devanagari scripts
Related languages
About the Goan Konkani language
Goan Konkani (कोंकणी) is spoken by about 4.2 million people, which makes it the 200th most spoken language in the world — just behind Norwegian Nynorsk (4.3 million) and ahead of Mazanderani (4.2 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Marathi-Konkani group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Goan Konkani spoken?
Goan Konkani is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (4.2 million).
Goan Konkani is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Goan Konkani is written in the Latin and Devanagari scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Marathi, Varhadi-Nagpuri, Konkani, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 gom.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.