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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 ]
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.
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.
The present-day state of Goa was established in 1987. [1] Goa is India's smallest state by area.It shares a lot of similarities with Indian history, especially with regard to colonial influences and a multi-cultural aesthetic.
The precise etymology of the word Chardo is unclear. Two most probable explanations are as follows: [13] The roots of this Konkani word is said to lie in the Prakrit word Chavda, which is the name of a dynasty who are said to have migrated to Old Goa from Saurashtra in the 7th and 8th centuries, after their kingdom was destroyed by the Sunni Caliphate's conquest in around 740 AD.
In 2017, the event was observed for the first time in Belagavi, formerly Belgaum, which lies in Karnataka State. [4] Bishop of Belagavi, Rev. Peter Machado has been quoted saying that Konkani speaking people in the region comprised to Saraswats, Christians, Daivadnyas and Konkan Marathas, yet "the Konkani speaking people from the upper ghats region comprising from Yellapur to Kolhapur have ...
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 ...
Many Konkani manuscripts which are now found in museums in Portugal are Roman transliterations of Kandavi manuscripts of Hindu epics. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The earliest document written in this script is found in a petition addressed by Ravala Śeṭī, a Gaunkar of Caraim in the islands of Goa, to the king of Portugal .