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A collection of dialects of Marathi-Konkani languages spoken in the Konkan region is referred to as Maharashtrian Konkani. It is often mistakenly extended to cover Goan Konkani which is an independent language. George Abraham Grierson has referred to this dialect as the Konkan Standard of Marathi in order to differentiate it from Konkani ...
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.
The status of Konkani as an independent language or as a dialect of Marathi had a great political bearing on Goa's merger, which was settled by a plebiscite in 1967 (the Goa Opinion Poll). [ 1 ] The Sahitya Akademi (a prominent literary organisation in India) recognised it as an independent language in 1975, and subsequently Konkani (in ...
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]
Although Konkani preserved an older stage of phonetic development, and showed a greater variety of verbal forms than standard Marathi; [8] Europeans like John Leyden, Indians like A K Priolkar claimed that Konkani was a dialect of Marathi or Maharashtri, it later proved false as Konkani was found to be an independent language & given official ...
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.
However, the claim is disputed since as per many linguists its language is indistinguishable from that of the Old Marathi literature from Yadava era (1200–1300 CE)- the language is nearly identical, the script is early Devanagari, so it only makes sense to call it Marathi and not 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 phonology; Konkani language agitation, historic agitations in support of the language in Goa, India