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She may be wearing a saree, salwaar, skirt or slacks, I love my mother as I always do. Just because she is written in a different scribble or script, my love for Konkani does not change. 🙏

My article on the importance of newspapers, print media and online media in regional languages vis-à-vis localised voices, opinions and their contribution towards overall language preservation featured in today’s issue of the #Konkani Daily @bhaangarbhuin

@roenshenoi Shenoi Goembab has written about this and actually envisioned this happening in the future wherein descendants of Goan displaced from their homeland in the 16th and 17th centuries would return to Goa in the 20th & 21st century and make the state a thorough Konkani majority state.

People in #Goa have used their Portuguese connection to immigrate to "all over Europe". I wonder if people displaced from Goa at the Portuguese times can claim Goan #ancestry to return to Goa to make it their home? Will they be welcome like Europe has welcomed the Goans?

@fn @Nai25344G @KonkanisUnited @Konkanichyo_bol @PFKodial @AshawadiP @PrakashWKamatPK @WorldKonkani @konkanibhasa_ @mi_ek_konkani @konkani_2996 Is this updated version?

@Nai25344G @KonkanisUnited @KonkaniLearn @Konkanichyo_bol @PFKodial @AshawadiP @PrakashWKamatPK @WorldKonkani @konkanibhasa_ @mi_ek_konkani @konkani_2996 If you're writing in one Konkani script, you can convert it via Konkanverter.com (works for Kannada, Nagari, Romi and Malayalam scripts... unfortunately not yet for Perso-Arabic).

What is your mother tongue (Language) ? Konkani Marathi Kannada Hindi Other (Please tweet in the comments)

शिवराक माज्जर ಶಿವರಾಕ ಮಾಜ್ಜರ Vegitarian Cat 😺 #कोंकणी Idiom "Acting innocent" “pretending to pose no danger" "Innocuous"

Konkani Idiom "शिवराक माज्जर"

@Konkanist @arunbnaik Yes देवा कूड रांचे कूड

@KonkaniLearn @arunbnaik Do you not use the word कूड for "room" in your dialect?

In the Peḍṇẽ dialect of #Konkani, the word होंवरी [ˈɦõʋriː] (f.) means "room" while in most other dialects & Standard Konkani the same word means "cave". Pic: पांडवांच्यो होंवरी pāṇḍavančyo hõvrī, the Pandavas' caves in Harvalẽ, Goa dating to the 6th century C.E.

@Konkanist @arunbnaik Interesting. In my ancestral home, there was a room dedicated to ripe mangoes, it was callef आंबे ओरी. The first room which had stone wall and plaster in that house, was called शिमीटा ओरि The room my grandmother occupied was, years after her demise, होळेंमालि ओरि

My article in today’s issue of the Konkani Daily @bhaangarbhuin on the problems Konkani faces in today’s AI age and some steps that could be taken to improve Konkani’s representation online.

आंबो and Mango.

@Konkanist @KonkaniLearn Have you got a chance to read his research papers. It says sri Ananteshwar Temple constructed by GSB in 8th century. I carried impression we move from Goa due to Portuguese GOVINDA PAI M share.google/39AtdTzj1fhE5J…

#bhaangarbhuin #goa #konkani #pearls #quote

Idli in it's traditional forms, Kottige (Khotte) and Moode. Konkani/ Tulunadu style. Taj Mahal, Mangaluru.

In rural Maharashtra and the Konkan-Goa coastal belt, every village (gāv, Konkani ganv) has a layered set of deities that the Bombay Gazetteer and the Maharashtra State Gazetteers organize as follows: - a grāmadevatā (village tutelary) - one or more kṣetrapāla-type guardians at the village boundary - a hero/warrior stratum (vīr) - a class of demonic-attendant or liminal beings (cheḍā, devacār, rākhaṇdār, mharu) Iravati Karve's book "Maharashtra: Land and Its People (1968)" and the Maharashtra Government Gazetteer chapter on "Religion and Gods of Maharashtra" both note that Mārutī (Hanumān) is the most common village grāmadevatā of Marathi villages, while Bhairobā, Mhasobā, Vīrobā, Dhuloba, Jākhāī, Jokhāī, and Mariāī form the boundary-and-disease guardian set, and Khaṇḍobā is the most widespread kuladaivata across Brāhmaṇ, Maratha, Mali, Dhangar, Kunbi, and even some Mahār communities. In Goa and Konkan, the structurally homologous set is - Sātērī/Bhumikā - Ravalnāth/Ravalu (the kṣetrapāla) - Vetāḷ/Betāl/Vetobā (the fierce nocturnal village protector) - Bhutnāth/Mharu/Cheḍā/Devacār/Rākhaṇdār (the demonic attendants)

Dr. Jayanti Naik was the first person to recieve her PhD from Goa University's department of Konkani. Her's was the first ever PhD thesis written entirely in #Konkani & she was awarded her doctorate in 2004. Her thesis dealt with the role & portrayal of women in Konkani folklore.

Names of some snakes in #Konkani [3/3]

@Konkanist Coriander is कोत्तंबरी in Canara, borrowed from Kannada काळो

Names of some seeds in #Konkani [All names are listed in the singular]