Konkani people | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-17

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Konkani people


00:00:48 1 Denominations
00:00:58 1.1 Endonyms
00:01:47 1.2 Exonyms
00:02:08 2 History
00:02:17 2.1 Prehistory
00:04:32 2.2 The later period
00:06:07 2.3 The classical period
00:07:23 2.4 13th–19th century AD
00:07:33 2.4.1 Turkic rule
00:08:32 2.4.2 Portuguese rule
00:15:33 2.4.2.1 Impact on culture and language
00:18:41 3 Konkanis today
00:19:14 4 See also
00:19:31 5 Notes and references
00:19:40 6 Bibliography
00:20:48 7 External links



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Konkani people (Koṅkaṇī lok also Koṅkaṇe, Koṅkaṇstha) are an ethno-linguistic community who inhabit the Konkan Coast of south western India and speak the Konkani language. They originate from coastal Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa and in The Dang dist and near by Dharampur place of Gujarat.The word Konkan and, in turn Konkani, is derived from Kuṅkaṇ or Kuṅkaṇu. Different authorities explain etymology of this word differently.
Some include:

Koṇ meaning top of the mountain.
Name of aboriginal mother goddess, which is sometimes sanskritised to mean goddess Renuka.Thus the name Konkane, comes from the word Konkaṇ, which means the people of Konkan.The Konkani people speak different dialects of Konkani, their native tongue; although a very high percentage are bilingual.