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The vocabulary from Konkani comes from a number of sources. The main source is Prakrits. So Sanskrit as a whole has played a very important part in Konkani vocabulary. Konkani vocabulary is made of tatsama (Sanskrit loanwords without change), tadhbhava (evolved Sanskrit words), deshya (indigenous words) and antardeshya (foreign words). Other ...
Influence of Portuguese vocabulary on Konkani language. Vikram Publications. ISBN 978-81-920574-6-0. Wherritt, Irene (December 1989). "Portuguese Loanwords in Konkani". Hispania. 72 (4): 873– 881. doi:10.2307/343565. JSTOR 343565. JSTOR 343565; Sardesai, Madhavi (2006). A comparative linguistic and cultural study of lexical influences on ...
Isidore Dantas (born 4 April 1947) is an Indian writer, translator, Wikipedia editor, [1] and lexicographer known for his work in the Konkani language and Konkani Wikipedia. Noted for his interest in Konkani films, [2] he is best known for his book on Konkani cinema Konkani Cholchitram [3] and for having co-authored an English-to-Konkani ...
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 is the official language of the Indian state of Goa and a minority language in the Konkan Division of Maharashtra state, and the Malabar Coast of Karnataka and Kerala states, where Konkani speakers emigrated during the Bahmani, Maratha, and Portuguese conquests. It is also one of the official languages of India. [citation needed]
Konkani Wikipedia is the Konkani language edition of Wikipedia, run by Wikimedia Foundation. It was started in July 2015. [1] Prior to this, it had been in incubation since 2006. [2] Currently, there are 3,605 content articles in the project. The total number of edits on this Wikipedia is 212,689. [3]
The Goa Konkani Akademi (Goa Academy of Letters for Konkani) is an organization set up by the Government of Goa in 1986 to promote the Konkani language in the state of Goa. The aim is to accelerate the pace of development of the language by encouraging writers, researchers, etc, and to bring Konkani people from all regions together.
Malvani is a dialect of Konkani with significant number of loanwords from Marathi. [1] Although Malvani does not have a unique script, the Devanagari script is used by most speakers. Malvani is sometimes used for sarcastic newspaper articles and local folk stage dramas known as Dashavatar .