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Konkani and Marathi also uses softer ch(च) or ts/tsa for certain words which is like the alveolar sound when the tip of the tongue hits behind upper front teeth’s eg-चमचा(spoon),चपाती

Konkan is pure magic blue sea, golden sand, yellow sun, lush green coconut trees and warm hearted people and vibrrant coastal villages.
Maharashtra is truly blessed coz of Konkan.

What do you'll think about this where I have noticed people being angry with beautiful AI pictures and videos. My thought is that they feel cheated and not being able to distinguish between real and fake which I have mentioned in my notes.

I almost always write my rants and the raging thoughts in my head in Konkani on Substack where it's almost invisible but I feel is 'the perfect' language to vent in.

So I saw that my last post had a huge response (appreciate it, didn't expect it!) but had some name errors and many don't read the Devanagari script so I decided to update it and make the map in a simplified Romi Script as well to make it accessible. The third map has the current version of the Latin script names borrowed from the Portuguese orthography for comparison.

Rules for the Romi script:

The Romi script features the long and short vowels for a, o and e sounds where no circumflex accent is the short sound and a circumflex represents the long sounds.

The Romi script, Devanagari and an English example will follow.

a being अ or as we pronounce 'girl'

â being आ or as we pronounce 'father'

o being ऒ or as we pronounce 'for'

ô being ओ or as we pronounce 'go'

e being ऎ or as we pronounce 'there'

ê being ए or as we pronounce 'they'

Note that ऒ ऎ are not used in the Devanagari script of Konkani usually even though the distinction of sounds exists. There is no distinction in the i and u in the Romi script.

çh with the cedilha underneath the c sounds like 'ts' as in its

ch sounds like the usual 'ch' as in chair

j and z are used in the Romi script but not indicated in the Devanagari script of Konkani even though there is a distinction seen in Hindi.

A doubled consonant is hard such as ट, ड, ढ, ळ etc shown as tt, dd, ddh, ll.

An apostrophe between consonants means combination of two consonants like त्त, क्क, प्प, etc shown as t't, k'k, p'p etc.

However if a hard consonant is doubled it would be written for example as l'll for ळ्ळ, t'tt for ट्ट, t'tth for ठ्ठ.

An m at the end of a word preceded by a vowel is an anusvar or nasal sound and is not pronounced with the lips. The vowel remains open but the nose is used to make the sound like as if it is blocked. If an m is followed by an apostrophe like m' it is pronounced like a regular m closing the lips and is not nasal.

For anusvar or nasal sound followed by p, f, b, bh it preceded by m in all other cases it is preceded by an n.

x is used for the sh श/ष sound as in 'she'

The y sound is written with an i or e follow by another vowel or simply with i if at the end of the word.

The map also has the talukas divisions and the major water bodies.

I wanted to mention that I got the Konkani names of Goa from the Konkani Bhaangarbhuim newspaper as my source.

edit. The i and u sounds are not distinguished because it's a general rule in Konkani unless specified that the last syllables if they contain i or u sounds is always long and any other place before it's short.

Was fed up of the butchering of Goa's place names. So I made this map a year back with the original Konkani names of the places in Goa. If you'll have any corrections or additions especially in South Goa please do let me know.

Goa's Konkani name should also have been mentioned which I missed out.

Goa: गोंय/Gõy/Goem