Indo-European · ISO 639-3 knn
Konkani Language
Konkani is an Indo-European language spoken by about 2.4 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Devanagari script.
Where Konkani is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak 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
- Old-Modern Marathi
- Modern Marathi
- Western Marathi
- Konkani
Writing system
Devanagari script
Related languages
About the Konkani language
Konkani is spoken by about 2.4 million people, which makes it the 284th most spoken language in the world — just behind Pahari-Potwari (2.5 million) and ahead of Slovenian (2.4 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Western Marathi group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Konkani spoken?
Konkani is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (5.2 million).
Konkani is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Konkani is written in the Devanagari script. 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, Goan Konkani, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 knn.
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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.