Konkani
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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]