Bolanthur Krishna Prabhu was a Konkani Dramatist and Poet.
Dravidian place-names along the northwest coast, in Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, and to a lesser extent in Sindh, as well as Dravidian grammatical influence such as clusivity in the Marathi, Konkani, Gujarati, Marwari, and to a lesser extent Sindhi languages, suggest that Dravidian languages were once spoken more widely across the Indian subcontinent.
From December 16 to 22, 1995, the First World Konkani Convention was held in Mangalore under the auspices of Konkani Bhasha Mandal Karnatak, Konkani Activist and organiser Basti Vaman Shenoy was its chief convener.
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Basti Vaman Shenoy presented before the gathering of world representatives of Konkani People his dream to establish a permanent entity for the preservation and promotion of Konkani language, art and culture.
In the 16th century most Hindus fled the Portuguese territories to the territories held by the Hindu rajas of Sonde and the Canara and Malabar Coast where significant communities of Konkani Goan Hindus still survive until today.Very few Hindus continued to exist in the Portuguese held Velha conquistas.
Part of the botanical information was scrutinized by three Konkani Brahmanas, Appu Bhat, Vinayaka Pandit and Ranga Bhat, and compared to a Sanskrit textbook which they possessed by name “Manhanighantanam” (i.e., Sanskrit Mahānighaṇṭu, meaning "the great lexicon") followed by a process of thorough verification, discussion with other scholars and general agreement.
Konkani is a language that is spoken by 3.6 million speakers mostly on the western coast of the Indian states of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala.
Mallya or Mahale, is a common surname among Konkani speaking Gaud Saraswat Brahmins across the Konkan coast from Maharashtra to Kerala.
A.A. Saldanha, J.B. Moraes and V.M. Fernandes experimented on the model of Reader's Digest by bringing out a monthly Konkani journal titled Konkan Daiz in 1958.
The Matsyagandha Express (Kannada/Tulu: ಮತ್ಸ್ಯಗಂಧ ಎಕ್ಷ್ಪ್ರೆಸ್ಸ; Marathi/Konkani: मत्स्यगंधा एक्सप्रेस) is a daily superfast train running between Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (Mumbai) and Mangalore Central.
Being persuaded by Monsignor Ayres Fernandes from Siolim to write in his own mother tongue, Moreno, as a boy, began writing in Konkani.
The name Old Goa was first used in the 1960s in the address of the Konkani monthly magazine, dedicated to spread the devotion of the Sacred Heart, Dor Mhoineachi Rotti which was shifted to the Basilica of Bom Jesus in 1964.
The influence of Paisachi over Konkani can be proved from the findings of Dr. Taraporewala who, in his book Elements of Science of Languages, Calcutta University,he ascertains that Konkani shows many Dardic features which are found in present day Kashmiri and Punjabi.
Stevens authored the Arte da lingoa Canarim, which was written in Portuguese, and was the first printed grammar of what is now called the Konkani language
Major Rama Raghoba Rane, PVC (Konkani: रामा राघोबा राणे), was born on 26 June 1918 at Chendia, Karwar, Karnataka, India and died July 11, 1994 at Southern command Hospital in Pune.
In the Shiruru village have four major community people they are mainly KonkaniNakhuda, Dakni, and Zamaity .
Mariano Saldanha (1878–1975), professor of Marathi, Sanskrit and Konkani in Goa and Portugal.
Ujwadu is a 2011 Konkani film directed by Kasargod Chinna and produced by KJ Dhananjaya and Anuradha Padiyar as the third film ever produced in the GSB Konkani language and attempts to showcase Konkani Saraswatha tradition and culture.
Vauraddeancho Ixtt gives away awards every year that are conferred upon Konkani writers and on those who contributed significantly to the Konkani language and to Goan culture.