‘The belief that written language is more important than spoken is harming the Konkani movement’
[ad_1] Sharing its name with the coast of its origin, the language of Konkani is spoken in multiple dialects and written in scripts as diverse as Perso-Arabic, Roman, Devanagari, Kannada, and Malayalam. Enmeshed within the politics of language, so closely tied to regional identity in South Asia, official status, standardisation, and patronage pertaining to the … Read more