Anytime, Cip, only i do not want to spark a debate that has silicon melt in poor Herman's mainframe ! A couple of points: some saraswats became Catholics, you can be sure that many of Ratnagiri's Konkanni speaking Moslems must have had Hindu Sarasvat antecedents. In 1990, twenty thousand of them in Cape Town claimed Konkanni as the language spoken at home in a census filing. WE, this time a deliberate emphasis on we, colonised Goa, settled on Pond-Manguesh as the new home of Tribe's Gods, then got the Nilotics who were there first to speak our tongue ! In fact, it is believed that those Southern cattle herdsmen gave Goa its name - Go-Man, or cow-people. From the Punjab, to the Central Provinces to Kerala(50,000), the Sarasvat, who typically has never made it to Goa, speaks Konkanni at home, even as he assimilates locally from nine to five. Disown it all after three thousand years, perhaps, but will leave it to the next generation. eric. --- C Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric, > > Could you be kind enough to explain the meaning of > "i am sure we Saraswats" > ? > > With kind regards, > > Cip > > -----Original Message----- > eric pinto, Sent: 08 September 2003 22:10 > > WE call it sheergo/sheerko, and it goes by the > same label in Persia and > Afghanistan. Given our Kandahari origins, i am sure > we Saraswats were > familiar with the liquid millenia before chef Vasco > made port in Calicut ! > > eric. > > > ########################################################################## > # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > # > # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), > and avoid top-posts # > # More details on Goanet at > http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # > # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to > reflect respect to others # > ##########################################################################
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