Salu irmanv, Kindly refer to Prof. Joaquim Antonio Fernandes' KONKNNI NAD XASTR and S J Borkar's Let's Learn Konkani' for the correct romi pronounciations - nasal, long, short, open & closed, dental, palatal etc. Fausto
Ancy wrote: The current Roman script writing is excellent except for few loop holes. The first and foremost one is the letter short A. This sound is pecular for Konkani language. Current Roman script uses the letter 'O' for this sound. Thus I have noticed most of the Goans with whom I have interacted that they do not pronounce the actual Konkani short 'A' sound. They replace it with 'O' sound. Because of this see how the meaning changes. Gay ch^rta (cow grases) is pronounced by Goans as GAY CHORTA (cow steals) Sa~ Zuze M^riyecho p^ti is pronounced by Goans as Sa~ Zuze Moriyecho poti (Here Mori will mean as bathroom and poti will mean as the small bag inserted at the waiste by the old lady) Kam k^r is pronounced by Goans as Kam Kor (Here Kor will mean as Anjya~cho Kor) Hundreds of similar example can be given. Thus TSKK suggested new letter ^ or (Inverted V while printing or writing in hand) for the short 'A' sound. In fact inverted V is used for the same sound in linguistics too.