Konkani Language
| Konkani is written in a non-Latin script. Konkani text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO 15919 standard. |
Konkani (Devanāgarī: कोंकणी, Kōṅkaṇī), is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-European family of languages and is spoken on the western coast of India. It is one of the official languages of India, the official language of the Indian state of Goa, and a minority language in Karnataka and northern Kerala (Kasaragod district).
Konkani is a member of the southern Indo-Aryan language group. It retains elements of the old Indo-European language structure and shows similarities with both western and eastern Indo-Aryan languages.
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