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On 28 December 1984, Goa Konkani Akademi (GKA) was founded by the government of Goa to promote Konkani language, literature, and culture. [100] The Thomas Stephens Konknni Kendr (TSKK) is a popular research institute based in the Goan capital Panaji. It works on issues related to the Konkani language, literature, culture, and education. [101]
The Konkani people are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group native to the Konkan region of the Indian subcontinent. They speak various dialects of the Konkani language. Following the Konkani language agitation, Konkani became the premier official language of Goa state, while Marathi remains as the associate official language of Goa. [3]
In Karwar Taluk (Uttara Kannada district) alone, Konkani language is spoken by about 78% of the population. [5] Significant population of Konkani people has also settled in Belgaum, Sirsi and Bangalore. [5] As per the 2011 census, speakers of Konkani form 1.29% of the total population of the state. [1]
The 2011 census recorded 31 individual languages as having more than 1 million native speakers (0.1% of total population). The languages in bold are scheduled languages (the only scheduled language with less than 1 million native speakers is Sanskrit). The first table is restricted to only speaking populations for scheduled languages.
Konkani is spoken as a first language by about 66.11% of the people in the state, but almost all Goans can speak and understand Konkani. A large population of people can speak and understand English as well. Other linguistic groups in the state per the 2011 census are speakers of Marathi (10.89%), Hindi (8.64%), Kannada (4.65%), Urdu (2.83% ...
Konkani language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Konkan region of India. Konkani alphabets, different scripts used to write the language Konkani in the Roman script, one of the scripts used to write the language; Konkani phonology; Konkani language agitation, historic agitations in support of the language in Goa, India
Konkani is the most spoken language in Sattari Taluka. Marathi is also spoken by a significant minority. At the time of 2011 Census of India, 61.83% of the population of Sattari Taluka spoke Konkani, 24.15% Marathi, 5.16% Urdu, 3.63% Hindi and 2.34% Kannada as their first language. [2]
Goans (Konkani: गोंयकार, Romi Konkani: Goenkar, Portuguese: Goeses) is the demonym used to describe the people native to Goa, India, who form an ethno-linguistic group resulting from the assimilation of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Indo-Portuguese, Austro-Asiatic ethnic and/or linguistic ancestries.