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José Camillo Lisboa, Goan physician and botanist [94] José Gerson da Cunha, Goan physician who achieved international renown as an orientalist, historian, linguist and numismatist [95] Acacio Gabriel Viegas, medical practitioner who was credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Bombay, India, in 1896. [96]
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.
The most popular celebrations in the Indian state of Goa include the Goa Carnival, (Konkani: Intruz), Shigmo and São João (Feast of John the Baptist). [7] The most popular festivals in Goa include Ganesh Chaturthi (Konkani: Chavath), [8] Diwali, [9] Christmas (Konkani: Natalam), [10] Easter (Konkani: Paskanchem Fest), Samvatsar Padvo or Sanvsar Padvo and the feast of St. Francis Xavier, who ...
The Official Language Act, 1987, of the erstwhile Union Territory of Goa, Daman and Diu makes Konkani in the Devanagari script the sole official language of Goa, but provides that Marathi may also be used "for all or any of the official purposes". Portuguese was the sole official language during Portuguese colonial rule.
The Goan Muslims are a minority community who follow Islam in the Indian coastal state of Goa, some are also present in the union territory of Damaon, Diu & Silvassa. They are native to Goa, unlike recent Muslim migrants from mainland India, and are commonly referred to as Moir ( Konkani : मैर ) by Goans in Goan Konkani .
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A third boarding school in southwest Missouri, led by a former long-time staffer of the embattled Agape Boarding School, has closed, according to past students who have communicated with that ...
These dialects are collectively assigned the language code gom under the ISO 639-3 classification (since it is sometimes called Goan Marathi). In common usage, Goan Konkani refers collectively only to those dialects of Konkani spoken primarily in the state of Goa, for eg. The Antruz, Bardeskari & Saxtti dialects.