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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 ]
José Pereira, in his 1971 work Konkani – A Language: A History of the Konkani Marathi Controversy, pointed to an essay on Indian languages written by John Leyden in 1807, wherein Konkani is called a "dialect of Maharashtra" as an origin of the language controversy. [1] Another linguist to whom this theory is attributed is Grierson.
There are many interpretations on how the Gaud Saraswat Brahmins received the name "Gaud" and the information about it is scant. Authors Jose Patrocinio De Souza and Alfred D'Cruz interpreters that the word Gauda or Goud may have been taken from Ghaggar, with Goud and Saraswat having the same meaning, that is an individual residing on the banks of river Saraswati.
The roots of the Konkani Language agitation lay in the denial of Konkani as an independent language and the attempts to merge Goa into Maharashtra. Konkani was not taken seriously as a potential official language except by a few Goans. By 1960, pro-Konkani and pro-Marathi groups started a propaganda war through distribution of pamphlets.
While the earliest inscriptions in Konkani date from around the end of the first millennium, the first writer in the history of Konkani language known to us today is Shamaraja; who was also known as Krishnadas Shama as he was an ardent devotee of Lord Krishna. He was born in the 15th century AD in the village of Quelossim in Goa.
Venn diagram of the ISO designations of the Konkani languages Maharashtri Kokani or Kokan Marathi , is a group of Konkanic dialects spoken in the Kokan 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 ...
There is a diaspora Konkani Muslim community based in Persian Gulf states, [4] [5] the United Kingdom, [6] [7] and South Africa. [8] [9] Some Konkani Muslims migrated to Pakistan during the Partition of India in 1947, and are presently settled in Karachi, [10] as part of the larger Muhajir community.
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