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Konkani

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Konkani is the Mother tongue and Spoken by, around 4 Million people of various part of the World. Out of these 4 Million most live in the West Coast of India, Popularly known as Konkan Region.

Konkani is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-European family of languages spoken in the Konkan coast of India. Konkani is the official language in the Indian state of Goa and is also one of the official languages of India.

Konkani has retained ergative construction like the western Indo-Aryan languages. Modern Konkani is evolved and influenced by many other Indian Languages Like, Sankrit,Kannada,Marathi and also French,Portugese and Arabic.

Our goal is, not only make Konkani Dictionary,but find all sister words which sound similar to Konkani word and at the same time Find different Konkani words used by different communities to address same thing.

Here we refer Konkani as spoken by Manglorean Christian Konkanis only, Goan Kankani as GOAN and Hindu Konkani as GSB.

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We have Around 7000 Konkani words, so far.

How to read : There are many Words Pronounced differently than normal English Sound, (eg: The Kannada Words Kole (Murder), KoLe (Dirt) ) Both of these words spellings is same but Spell and sound different; To easy Read with such sounding words we wrote L in capital which Pronounce as KoLe.

n as in natak
nn or N as in Mannu (Soil/mud)
l as in Kole (Murder)
lh or L as in KoLe (dirt)
n is Silent if it comes in end of the word

ASK NOT WHAT KONKANI HAS DONE TO YOU,but
TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR YOUR MOTHER TONGUE.