The Konkani language is the language of our ancestors, spoken in the Konkan region and beyond. Scripts for the Konkani language do not belong neither to any particular communities nor to any religious groups.
One of the main current need for Roman script is to communicate via Internet with ease (not that it cannot be done with other scripts but other scripts are difficult). What I CANNOT understand why 'Thomas Stephens Konknni Kendr (TSKK)', 'Dalgado Konknni Akademi' and others develop 'Standard Roman script Konkani'? These Konknni institutes are capable of taking on this main Roman script Konkani task. It appears that these institutes are good enough to collect funds to give away prizes to Konkani scholars, leaving this main task of this century. I hope and pray that the work on 'Standard Roman script Konkani' will start soon. Few years back TSKK has published 'Konkani Basic Course' for Devnagri script Konkani and I do NOT understand why TKKK cannot publish similar book 'Konkani Basic Course' for Roman script Konkani? Can anyone explain? Cip UK -----Original Message----- Santosh Helekar Sent: 28 June 2005 16:39 --- "A. Veronica Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The Bhembros, the Mauzos, the Kelekars, the >Shivdases and others are not to be trusted anymore. > Why? Are you trying to make Goa and Konkani the state and language of just one religious community, and rewrite history accordingly? Cheers, Santosh
