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The Marathi—Konkani languages are the mainland Southern Indo-Aryan languages, spoken in Maharashtra and the Konkan region of India. The other branch of Southern Indo-Aryan languages is called Insular Indic languages , which are spoken in Insular South Asia (predominantly the island countries, Sri Lanka and Maldives ).
Maharashtri Konkani or Konkan Marathi, is a group of Konkanic dialects spoken in the Konkan division of the Konkan region. [2] George Abraham Grierson , a British Indian linguist of the colonial era referred to these dialects as the Konkan Standard of Marathi in order to differentiate it inside the Konkani language group.
Konkani and Gujarati have many words in common, not found in Marathi. [58] The Konkani O (as opposed to the Marathi A, which is of different Prakrit origin), is similar to that in Gujarati. [58] The case terminations in Konkani, lo, li, and le, and the Gujarati no, ni, and ne have the same Prakrit roots. [58]
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 .
Ironically, Konkani is at present the 'cement' that binds all Goans across caste, religion and class and is affectionately termed Konkani Mai (Mother Konkani). [33] Due to negative propaganda from the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, Marathi was made the official language of Goa following the Annexation of Goa in 1961. Konkani received official ...
The Konkani language spoken in the Indian state of Goa has loanwords from multiple languages, including Arabic, Portuguese, English and Kannada. This is a list of loanwords in the Konkani language . Portuguese words in Konkani
Konkani phonology; Konkani language agitation, historic agitations in support of the language in Goa, India; Maharashtrian Konkani, a dialect of the Konkani language spoken in Maharashtra, India; Marathi-Konkani languages, Indic languages of Maharashtra and Konkan, including Marathi and Konkani
Kar (Marathi: कर Kar, Konkani: कार Kār) is a suffix used after the names of villages along the western coast of India, forming the most common surnames used by the Marathi and Konkani people in Maharashtra, Goa and some parts of Karnataka.