I am delighted to see a post from Professor Jose Pereira on Goanet. I hope he stays on, and offers his well-researched insights into Konkani and its history in this popular medium. An objective and dispassionate academic view of our language is sorely needed here.
Cheers, Santosh --- Jose Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > STANDARD KONKANI > > Konkani quite definitely had a standard form (which > I have called Pramann > Konkani) from the 16th to the 18th centuries. It > appears to have been the > speech of the xennais of Cortalim, of which > Krishnadas Shamraj was one; he > used it in his prose versions of the Mahabharata and > Ramayana. [See excerpts > published in my Konkani Mandakini, Panaji: Goa > Konkani Akademi, 1996, pp. > 20-26].
