Konkani phonology
Konkani[note 1] is a southern Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-European family of languages spoken in the Konkan coastal region of India. It has approximately 3.6 million speakers.[citation needed]
Konkani is the official language of the Indian state of
This article is restricted to Konkani dialects spoken in the states of Goa, Karnataka, and Kerala, where the largest number of Konkani speakers are found.[citation needed]
Structure
Introduction
Dialects
The Goan standard dialect of Konkani, the Antruz dialect[
Writings and Scripts
A good number of writings are available in four of the dialects mentioned above: Goa Hindu, Bardes Christian, Canara Christian and Canara Saraswat. The Canara Saraswat dialect includes the speech of the Gaud Saraswats as well as that of the Chitrapur Saraswats as the differences between these two varieties of speech are minor. Sashti Christians generally use the Bardes dialect for writing. The Goan Hindus use the Devanagari script in their writings but the Goan Christians use the Roman script. The Saraswats of Karnataka use the Devanagari script in the North Canara district but the Kannada script in Udupi and South Canara . The Canara Christians use the Kannada script.[2] The Devanagari script has been promulgated as the official script for Konkani in Goa.
Vowel Rounding in Christian Dialects
In the Christian dialects (Bardes Christian and Saxtti Christian), there are fewer vowel phonemes as the vowel a has merged with o. See table below:
Bardes Christian | Sashti Christian | Standard Konkani | Glossary |
---|---|---|---|
dhor | dhor | dhar | Hold |
koḷo | koḷo | kaḷo | Bud |
See also
- Canara Konkani
- Konkani script
- Konkani language
- Konkani Language Agitation
- Footnotes
- coastal Karnataka and in some parts of northern Keralahas its distinct features, and is rightly identified as a separate language called Konkani and whose phonology is within the purview of this article.
- ^ New Conquests: Areas conquered by the Portuguese in the latter half of the eighteenth century
- ^ Old Conquests: Areas conquered by the Portuguese in the first half of the sixteenth century
- Citations
- ISBN 81-7755-257-0.
- ISBN 1-85359-674-4.