Goan Konkani

Hi, this will be a blog dedicated to both learning Konkani as well as sharing things related to the culture. this is a side blog so I won't be able to like and follow

[learning-konkani]

Basic Konkani words list

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The other link I posted for the whatsapp group doesn't seem to work so please try this one instead!

Konkani Learning Resource

WhatsApp Group Invite

There are many groups you can join not just language stuff :)

[gwendolynlerman]

Languages of the world

Konkani (कोंकणी/ಕೊಂಕಣಿ/Konknni/കോങ്കണീ/کونکڼی)

Basic facts

Number of native speakers: 2.3 million

Official language: Goa (India)

Also spoken: Bahrain, Kenya, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Script: Devanagari, 51 letters/Kannada, 49 letters/Latin, 32 letters/Malayalam, 50 letters/Arabic, 31 letters

Grammatical cases: 3

Linguistic typology: fusional, SOV

Language family: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Southern Zone, Marathi-Konkani

Number of dialects: 3 main groups

History

<17th century - use of the Goykanadi script

Writing system and pronunciation

These are the letters that make up the Devanagari script: अ आ इ ई उ ऊ ऋ ऌ ए ॲ ऐ ओ ऑ औ अं अः क ख ग घ ङ च छ ज झ ञ ट ठ ड ढ ण त द ध न प फ ब भ म य र ऱ ल व ष श स ह ळ.

These are the letters that make up the Kannada script: ಅ ಆ ಇ ಈ ಉ ಊ ಋ ೠ ಎ ಏ ಒ ಓ ಐ ಔ ಕ ಖ ಗ ಘ ಙ ಚ ಛ ಜ ಝ ಞ ಟ ಠ ಡ ಢ ಣ ತ ಥ ದ ಧ ನ ಪ ಫ ಬ ಭ ಮ ಯ ರ ಲ ವ ಶ ಷ ಸ ಹ ಳ.

These are the letters that make up the Latin script: a ã b c ç d e g h i j k l m n n’ ng o p r s t u w y.

These are the letters that make up the Malayalam script: അ ആ ഇ ഈ ഉ ഊ ഋ ൠ ഌ ൡ എ ഏ ഒ ഓ ഐ ഔ ക ഖ ഗ ഘ ങ ച ഛ ജ ഝ ഞ ട ഠ ഡ ഢ ണ ത ഥ ദ ധ ന പ ഫ ബ ഭ മ യ ര ല വ ശ ഷ സ ഹ ള.

These are the letters that make up the Arabic script: ا‎ آ‎‎ اے ي و ‎او ب پ طت ﭦ ج چ ەح د ﺭ صس ش ف ڤ ک گ ل م ن ڭ ڼ ڃ و ي.

Almost all vowels have a nasal form.

Grammar

Nouns have three genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), two numbers (singular and plural), and three cases (nominative, genitive, and vocative).

Noun complements appear before the noun.

Verbs are conjugated for tense, mood, aspect, voice, person, and number.

Dialects

There are three dialect groups: Northern, Central, and Southern.

[survivetoread]

Was very surprised to find that Google Translate now supports Konkani.

I can't say how accurate it is - I'll have to ask my sister's mother-in-law for that.

Anyway, I had a fun afternoon looking up words to find which ones are identical to Marathi and which ones are different!

[southasianlanguages]

Resource List for Learning Konkani

Hello! Do you want to learn Konkani but don't know where to start? Then I've got the perfect resource list for you and you can find its link below! Let me know if you have any suggestions to improve it. Here is what the resource list contains;

"Handmade" resources on certain grammar concepts for easy understanding.

Resources on learning the script.

Websites to practice reading the script.

Documents to enhance your vocabulary.

Notes on Colloquial.

Music playlists

List of podcasts/audiobooks And a compiled + organized list of websites you can use to get hold of grammar!

KONKANI RESOURCE LIST

KONKANI RESOURCE LIST Join the South Asian Languages server for learning more about the Konkani Language: https://discord.gg/H2Cj6gP6RW Info

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[anapholle-deactivated20260104]

I can't wait to be able to start a journal in my target language

[corvid-language-library]

Sometimes I think about all the discourse that used to circulate langblr and I'm like lmao thank fucking god we grew outta THAT phase

[learning-konkani]

wow I didn't think it was even possible for langblr to have stuff to fight over lol

[learning-konkani]

A History of Konkani Literature

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Elementos gramaticais da l

Grammatica de lingua Concani

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[learning-konkani]

Found this playlist of videos for learning saxtti/solcette konkani. The playlist isn't complete and there are about ~40 videos

Saxtti (Xaxti) Konkani tutorials - Konknni Uloi

Salcette Konkani tutorials by Dr. Aida Dourado

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more youtube lessons

Easy Learning Konkani

This is Saxtti Konkani which is a dialect spoken in the south of Goa

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bardez konkani examples

Goem Samballath Song By Francis Fernandes

Goem Samballath, Francis De Mungul, Minino Mario, Revolutionary Goan , Pogo Bill, RG,

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some bardez konkani stuff

this is a weekly

Vavaraddeancho Ixtt Greetings from Vavraddeancho Ixtt!The weekly enjoyed quite good freedom to express itself without rigorous Portuguese c

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Just a read about the language by a phd student

[learning-konkani]

Hi,

This side blog will be for learning Saxtti and Bardeskari Konkani which are dialects of a language spoken in the north and south of a tropical state called Goa in the west of India.

Due to portuguese colonisation as well as several attempts from India to supress the language and culture Konkani is a spoken language. While there may be ~2 million native speakers accoriding to a 2011 census, that number includes dialects belonging to different parts of India including Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, Gujurat, Daman and Diu. So the number of native Goan Konkani speakers is far lower.

Konkani is continuing to die out due to lack of native speakers, migration and of course the attempts to get rid of it which also causes a lack of resources and structure. While I am starting with learning it as a spoken language I hope to progress enough and figure out how to read and write as well. I will have to learn about grammar, sentence structure etc so I will also post about that.

If you are also attempting to learn a sort of or fully dead/extinct language please interact so we can share this struggle together lol :))

I also have another side blog for Japanese here

[sea-chord]

Hey @learning-konkani , its lovely to come across another konkani learner. Would love to exchange resources! Especially for adult learners, who aren't staying in Goa.

Sharing what I've started on:

1. Saurabh kaisare's youtube channel here - ive found this to be a good start, covering the basics. Since i know hindi, ive been following the devnagari script route and find that easier since they're some similar route words, and similar sentence structure / ordering (in comparison to english)

2. I am parallely reading 'konkani swayam shikshak' by R K Rao here. Its an old textbook, and covers the more formal grammatical stuff. Im personally finding that tough, coz i never really paid attention to learning formal grammar in english and hindi, coz it was spoken around me and i got a feel for it.

3. Once im familiar with a bit more vocabulary, I'll get to watching tiatr's on youtube, and paying more attention to song lyrics - that's a fun way for me to pick up things. And the culture has alot to offer in these two forms, so it all sits well together :)

They're a few other books and videos i came across, but those didn't work for me. And im on the lookout for more stuff

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[learning-konkani]

omg I didn't think I'd find another person interested in learning Konkani here 😭

I checked out the links you sent and it looks like you're learning a different dialect than saxtti/solcette or bardeskari Konkani. Do you know which dialect those videos are? It's very similar to what I'm learning, especially the basic sentences like 'my name is'. I'm a beginner so I can't tell the difference that well as yet 😅 but I'd still love hear about your progress and relate since there aren't that many of us! I also don't understand Hindi so I'm limited to resources for English speakers(I was picking up on it when I was younger from bollywood films but I've forgotten everything). So this will be my first South Asian language :)

I'll also upload some other resources I've found but tbh there isn't much for the dialects I'm looking for 😫

[sea-chord]

Haha sweet!

I'm not sure whether this is from Salcette of Bardez, but honestly i wouldn't worry too much about the difference. They're both Goan konkani, and the differences would be minor and you'd be able to speak to Goans knowing either without any trouble.

Finding Konkani resources is tough, I've found this challenging as well. If you tell me what you're looking for, and if I've come across it, I'm more than happy to share it! I'd suggest widening your scope to goan konkani for now rather than being specific about the bardez or salcete details, you'll find a wider set of resources this way. For starters here's a crowdsource list i came across.

Could you share the videos you're learning from? Its possible that they're also using variations of words for 'my name is' rather than it being widely different. Incase im able to tell, I'll let you know.

Do share any resources you've found handy as well, I'm eager to find new stuff! We can shift this conversation to chat as well.

[learning-konkani]

Hi,

I asked my mum and I don't remember exactly what it was but it's not saxtti or bardeskari. Yeah I'm mixing the two dialects for now but my focus is these two because that's what my family speaks and I don't think it receives funding from the government to preserve it. I think the difference in dialects would be similar to grouping scottish eng, malaysian eng, irish eng and american eng together yk what I mean?

I'm not really learning it to speak to goans since they speak English anway and flying internationally is really expensive😭 There also aren't really many goans where I'm from especially around my age but is it different for you?

I saw that google docs! I just joined the discord thing :) Also I know you're not worried about dialect but for anyone else(and my bad memory) the links in that doc are mixed dialects.

I'm not tooooo worried about resources for now cause I'm still can't even speak at kindergardner level lol. I've learned numbers up to ten a few random words and I'm on lesson 3-4 in this konkani playlist. I've also posted a few other things on this blog and will keep adding stuff I come across.

I've also heard of a facebook group and whatsapp group but I haven't joined those as yet but I will try to post the links for those.

I'm also currently reading this. It says that there were some portuguese people who wrote about our grammar and sentence structures but it's in portuguese 😫

Feel free to message me and I don't mind either way :)

btw as someone that knows hindi is the sentence structure in Konkani more familar to you? Idk if it's because I'm a a beginner but the sentences just aren't sticking. Japanese is so easy because it has a trillion resources it feels so weird learning without that lol.

[learning-konkani]

Found this playlist of videos for learning saxtti/solcette konkani. The playlist isn't complete and there are about ~40 videos

Saxtti (Xaxti) Konkani tutorials - Konknni Uloi

Salcette Konkani tutorials by Dr. Aida Dourado

[learning-konkani]

more youtube lessons

Easy Learning Konkani

This is Saxtti Konkani which is a dialect spoken in the south of Goa

[learning-konkani]

bardez konkani examples

Goem Samballath Song By Francis Fernandes

Goem Samballath, Francis De Mungul, Minino Mario, Revolutionary Goan , Pogo Bill, RG,

[learning-konkani]

some bardez konkani stuff

this is a weekly

Vavaraddeancho Ixtt Greetings from Vavraddeancho Ixtt!The weekly enjoyed quite good freedom to express itself without rigorous Portuguese c

[hana-loves-bumblebees]

Every single person studying a language when they recognize the most basic word of the language in a text or a video

[icanthandleanotherheartbreak]

ok so as my like, 7 followers would know im learning Esperanton, but i have recently learned of two languages i can use to royally piss off all of europe: * Paraguayan Guaraní (endonym Avaña'ẽ) * Breton (endonym Brezhoneg) both are cool, and Guaraní is literally the most spoken indigenous language in the americas so they get more points for that :3 if this gets 10 notes ill also learn Nahuatl

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Shoutout to all those who want to learn an uncommon langauge but are struggling because they can't afford lessons and there are next to no free resources for it. I am suffering greatly and want to cry.

[lrninglnguage]

Today I woke up really loving my country, my language, my people and our culture, so I decided to make a few posts about it, bear with me

The first thing I'd like to talk about is one of my favorite saying (dictation?) in portuguese: Agora Inês é morta ou Agora é tarde, Inês é morta

Translating it literally to English it would be: Now Inês is dead or Now it's too late, Inês is dead. This saying mean that doing something is futile, useless, it's too late now.

I grew up with my parents (especially my dad) saying this, so I say it often, but I decided to talk about this saying in specific instead of so many other popular saying because of the history behind it:

So, Inês de Castro was a Galician noblewoman, who was very loved by D. Pedro I, Portugal's future king. She was also Constança Manuel's lady-in-waiting, who was married with D. Pedro I. His father disapproved their relationship and ordered the exiled of Inês to the Albuquerque Castle. But their love was too strong, so they continued to correspond each other and had four children together. When D. Constança died, D. Pedro ordered, without his father's permission, that Inês de Castro returned and they started to live together. His father, D. Afonso IV, afraid of the repercussions, ordered Inês's death when D. Pedro was away. D. Pedro I was furious and after D. Afonso IV's death, he is declared the eighth king of Portugal. After this, he persecuted and killed cruelly two of the men responsible for Inês's death. He revealead that he and Inês secrectly married before her death, which legitimized their four children. D. Pedro I granted Inês de Castro the posthumous title of queen of Portugal and he certainly would like to have reigned alongside his beloved, but that is no longer possible, because now Inês is dead.

[learning-konkani]

Thats interesting and sort of sweet ngl. Is it eu portugese or brazillian?

[lrninglnguage]

I don't know if they use this saying in Portugal as well, but as Brazil was colonized by Portugal, we share a lot of history. In Brazil, we speak Portuguese :), more specifically Brazilian Portuguese!

[learning-konkani]

I saw your blog after and realised that lol. My family is also from a former portuguese colony but our culture is dying out unlike Brazil which seems to be getting more prominent.

Brazillian portuguese sounds so much better than european portuguese and your English is so good!

[lrninglnguage]

I researched a little bit about Konkani and it seems like a lovely language and a very interesting culture! Good luck on your journey learning it! (Also, I found some Konkani musics and they are so good to hear, definitely adding to my playlist!)

Thank you! And I agree that Brazilian Portuguese sounds better, but I'm little suspect lol

[learning-konkani]

Glad you liked our music ☺️