Indo-European · ISO 639-3 kok
Konkani Language कोंकणी
Konkani is an Indo-European language spoken by about 7.4 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Devanagari, Kannada and Latin scripts.
Where Konkani is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Konkani language
Konkani (कोंकणी) is spoken by about 7.4 million people. It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Indo-Iranian group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Konkani spoken?
Konkani is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (4.5 million).
Konkani is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in India.
Writing system and status
Konkani is written in the Devanagari, Kannada, Latin and 2 more scripts.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Panjabi, Western Panjabi, Marathi and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 kok.
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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.