How do you'll pronounce the days of the week? And what word do you'll use for week? I'll write how we pronounce it.
Sunday - आयतार
Monday - सोमार
Tuesday - मुंगळार
Wednesday - बुदवार
Thursday - ब्रेस्तार
Friday- सक्रार
Saturday - सोणवार.
I don't remember us using a word for week but if we did, we'd say hafto (हफतो) only. Not the Bible or Newspaper Konkani of सातोळें/सप्तक respectively.
I want some history about Daivadnya Brahmins and information about DBs {as a DB myself} because it is hard to find information about us on the Internet.
What are some specialities (not including the Malayalam influence) of your dialect which are not found in the others and which dialect is the closest to your dialects. Is there a difference between the Konkani dialect of Kochi and Kasargod?
कोच्चिंतले आनी कासरगोडांतले कोंकणी लोक, मल्याळमाक आसपावलें ना जाल्यार, तुमच्या बोलीचें खाशेलपण कितें आसा जें कोंकणीच्यो हेर बोलींनी मेळणात? आनी आनींक खंयची बोली तुमकां चड लागशिल्ली आसा काय? कासरगोड आनी कोच्चि हांचे मदले कोंकणींत कितें सम आसा आनी कितें वेगळें आसा तें तुमी मात सांगशात?
I believe kannadigas are more tolerant of konkanis than marathis are of konkanis . This is based on my observation. So many friends I know actually consider themselves shudh marathi but on further questioning reveal that their ancestors were konkanis . They feel little or no connection to their konkani roots. Moreover konkanis who speak marathi are looked down upon for their different version of marathi . Wtf
hey all,
I'm quite interested in Konkani linguistics, and quite interested as well in the boundary languages that sit clearly in the Marathi-Konkani Language Family but diverge between Standard Marathi and Antruzi Konkani.
Of these I am interested in Malvani/Dalḍi, which as I understand are two closely related varieties, and how the past tense is conjugated.
Antruzi (and plenty of other Konkani varieties), constructs the perfect (to show an action has been completed) from the imperfect (to show an action is not completed).
take for example these sentences showing the past imperfect vs the past imperfect:
hãv keḷẽ khatalõ 'I was eating the banana' vs. havẽ keḷẽ khalẽ 'I ate the banana'.
as you can see in the second sentence follows an Ergative alignment, wherein the verb agrees with the object. (note that this only happens with transitive verbs (verbs that take a subject and an object, there are exceptions however)).
is this feature there in Dalḍi or Malvani? Would also be interested to know about Pednekari with regards to this.
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Non-Konkani speaker here. Got to know about an evil spirit(?) called Balishthamaru. I found only one source, which says that it is created when three cats die at the same time. It has many variations. And it is a part of something called the 'marava' system (I can't find a source for this either).
Here is the source: https://watkinspublishing.com/demonic-possession-and-mind-altering-parasites-in-indian-folklore/
Since I cannot find any other sources online (except for a couple of dubious youtube videos), I was wonderiing if it is an established story, or an oral tradition or something. Have you guys heard about it? Do you know of Konkani/English books, websites or articles where I can find out more about this?
P.S. Already looked at A.T.M. Jackson's book of Konkani folklore. No hits there.
Thank you in advance.
Hello dear Konkani friends. I as a Marathi speaker have always found Konkani to be fascinating. I like to think that Marathi & Konkani are sisters. I've been to Goa only 3 times and whenever I heard people speak Konkani, my mind went, "Same Same, But Different". It is also an incredibly sweet sounding language 😊
As far as I know, Konkani has variants like Goan, Karwari and Mangalorian, etc. Can speakers of these respective variants understand each other with ease? Do they have influence of surrounding languages? And are they variants or more like dialects?
Would love to know, Thanks 🙏
Why are we Daivajnya Bhramins who are supposed to wear holy thread but we can eat meat ?
Guys, what are some prominent Konkani Hindu and Konkani Christian communities? Ik that Nayawaths are the most prominent Konkani Muslim community.
