Konkani language | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-09

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Konkani language


00:00:48 1 Appellations
00:03:11 2 History
00:03:20 2.1 Etymology
00:04:01 2.2 Pre-history and early development
00:06:44 3 The language
00:07:17 3.1 Early Konkani
00:09:44 3.2 Medieval Konkani
00:11:32 3.3 Contemporary Konkani
00:11:58 4 Geographical distribution
00:14:03 5 Konkani revival
00:15:41 5.1 Post-independence period
00:16:36 5.2 Recognition as an independent language
00:17:18 5.3 Official language status
00:18:14 6 Phonology
00:19:41 6.1 Vowels
00:20:13 6.2 Consonants
00:20:25 7 Grammar
00:22:38 7.1 Konkani Apabhramsha and Metathesis
00:24:30 7.2 Vocabulary
00:25:16 7.3 Sanskritisation
00:26:13 8 Scripts
00:26:39 8.1 Past
00:27:47 8.2 Present
00:29:57 8.2.1 Alphabet or the iVarṇamāḷha/i
00:30:10 9 Dialects
00:31:10 9.1 Marathi-Konkani
00:33:44 10 Goan Konkani
00:34:30 11 Problems/issues
00:36:19 11.1 Opposition to Konkani language
00:37:49 11.2 Multilingualism
00:39:01 11.3 Konkani–Marathi dispute
00:41:22 11.4 Script and dialect issues
00:42:38 12 Organisations
00:45:01 13 Literature
00:46:09 14 Konkani media
00:46:18 14.1 Radio
00:47:11 14.2 Print
00:47:34 14.2.1 Dailies/Disallim
00:48:29 14.2.2 Weeklies/Satollim
00:49:37 14.2.3 Fortnightly
00:50:05 14.2.4 Monthlies/ Mhoineallim
00:53:33 14.3 Television
00:53:59 14.4 Konkani film
00:54:08 15 In popular culture
00:55:43 16 Proposed substrate influences
00:55:54 16.1 Austroasiatic
00:56:51 16.2 Dravidian
00:57:30 16.2.1 Indo-Aryan element
01:01:35 16.2.2 Development
01:01:43 16.2.2.1 Later Dravidian influence
01:02:45 16.2.2.2 Konkani and Gujarati analogy
01:03:53 16.2.2.3 Other foreign languages
01:04:39 16.2.2.4 Portuguese influence
01:05:49 17 See also



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Konkani (Kōṅkaṇī) is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-European family of languages and is spoken by Konkani people along the western coast of India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages mentioned in the 8th schedule of the Indian Constitution and the official language of the Indian state of Goa. The first Konkani inscription is dated 1187 A.D. It is a minority language in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Kerala, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diu.
Konkani is a member of the southern Indo-Aryan language group. It retains elements of Proto-Dravidian structures and shows similarities with both western and eastern Indo-Aryan languages.There are many fractured Konkani dialects, most of which are not mutually intelligible with one another.