Konkani phonology | Wikipedia audio article
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Konkani phonology


00:00:38 1 Structure
00:00:47 1.1 Introduction
00:00:56 1.1.1 Dialects
00:02:32 1.1.2 Writings and Scripts
00:03:25 1.2 The Standard Dialect
00:04:35 2 Phoneme Inventory
00:04:45 2.1 Konkani Phonemes (Standard Konkani)
00:04:58 2.1.1 Vowels
00:06:13 2.1.2 Consonants
00:06:21 2.2 Vowel Rounding in Christian Dialects
00:06:41 3 Phonetic details and Phoneme Distribution
00:06:52 3.1 General
00:08:02 3.2 The Aspirate/ Non-aspirate Contrast
00:09:08 3.3 Palatalisation
00:09:16 3.3.1 The Palatalised/Non-palatalised Contrast
00:10:05 3.3.2 Replacement of an alveolar affricate or fricative by a palatal one
00:10:40 3.3.3 Palatalised consonants and unpalatalised consonant plus y clusters
00:11:42 3.4 Oral And Nasal Vowel Contrast
00:13:12 3.5 Temporal Compensation
00:15:27 3.6 Glides before word-initial vowels
00:16:06 4 Phonological rules and alternations
00:16:23 4.1 Vowel height assimilation
00:16:39 4.2 Vowel rounding
00:16:54 4.3 Vowel syncope
00:17:24 4.4 Reduction of high vowels before another vowel
00:18:01 4.5 Final Vowel Elision
00:18:42 4.6 Final vowel addition
00:20:42 4.7 Final vowel preservation in an accented syllable in the Sashti Christian dialect
00:22:15 4.8 Devoicing of stops
00:22:30 5 See also



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Konkani is a southern Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-European family of languages spoken in the Konkan coast of India. It has approximately 3.6 million speakers.
Konkani is the official language of the Indian state of Goa and a minority language in  Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra, where Konkani speakers migrated during Bahamani, Maratha and Portuguese conquests. It is also one of the official languages of India.
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.