Konkani

Indo-Aryan language spoken in India
Intangible natural_language Q34239
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Summary

Konkani is a natural language[1]. Konkani ranks in the top 10% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,388 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: India[3]
  • Instance of: macrolanguage[4], modern language[5]
  • Subclass of: Konkani languages[6]
  • Writing system: Devanagari[7], Latin script[8], Kannada script[9], Malayalam script[10], Arabic script[11]
  • Part of: Schedule languages of India[12]
  • Commons category: Konkani language[13]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Konkani[14]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 7,400,000[15], 2,256,502[16]
  • Has characteristic: Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation in Konkani[17]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KOK[18]
  • Permanent duplicated item: Q25689902[19]
  • Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[20]
  • Category for films in this language: Category:Konkani-language films[21]
  • Related category: Category:Konkani pronunciation[22]

Why It Matters

Konkani has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Konkani is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Nationalencyklopedin. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . censusindia.gov.in. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Related category → Category:Konkani pronunciation
    Category for films in this language → Category:Konkani-language films
    Country → —
    Subclass of → Konkani languages
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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