Konkani

Konkani is a macrolanguage, spoken in India. Wikidata counts 7.4 m first-language speakers (2007). Wikidata describes it as “Indo-Aryan language spoken in India”.

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Wikidata record Glottolog

At a glance

ISO 639-3: kok
Glottocode: konk1270
Family: unclassified
Wikipedia: 91 language editions

7.4 mfirst-language speakers

—second-language speakers

1countries

5scripts

—levels in the tree

—UNESCO level

Facts

Name	Konkani
Also called	Konkani (macrolanguage), kok, Konkani language
L1 speakers	7,400,000 (2007)
All speakers	2,256,502
Written in	Devanagari, Latin script, Kannada script, Malayalam script, Arabic script
Kind	macrolanguage

Vitality

Wikidata has no EGIDS or UNESCO rating for Konkani yet.

where it is spoken

Map and countries

A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.

Map of the area where Konkani is spoken — Map: RobertBarathian · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

India395 languages in the index

Also spoken in India

engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · International hinHindiIndo-European · 615.3 m1 · National fraFrenchIndo-European · 285.4 m0 · International porPortugueseIndo-European · 227.3 m1 · National urdUrduunclassified · 162.6 m1 · National panPunjabiunclassified · 125 mSafe benBanglaIndo-European · 106 m1 · National tamTamilDravidian · 83 m2 · Provincial marMarathiunclassified · 77 m2 · Provincial bhoBhojpuriIndo-European · 52.2 m4 · Educational