One of the most pleasant languages I have heard besides Portuguese, Spanish, Persian and Bengali, is the Konkani spoken by the Goan upper classes whether Hindu or Christian. The probable cause of this strain of language is the infusion of Portuguese words that had long since been adopted into the original salt-of-the-earth Konkani.
This is not the Konkani of the Hoi Polloi, of the working class, the barely educated or the recent immigrant, rather it is the lingua franca of the Portuguese-Goa born and further assimilated into the next generation who evolved out of necessity into a mainly English speaking standard. That Konkani patois just like the Macanese Patúa is fast disappearing, visible more in the diaspora rather than in the original terra. Fortunately it has left an indelible stamp through the folk songs of the Mando, so even if that romantic strain soon disappears in everyday language, it will remain as long as Mandos are sung. While geographically undeniably Indian, within Goans there is also equally undeniably a Portuguese sub-culture visible in thought and action, similar to that of the Macanese or of the Brazilian upper strata. While the Macanese or Brazilian openly embraces that western soul, Goans due to their political environment rush to deny rather than celebrate that deep layering. Not all Indians want Goans to be like them. They celebrate the difference and want it to remain. Unfortunately when they go to Goa to see it for themselves, there is only the worst of Indian-ness to witness, like a proud pimp showing off the larger number of girls he controls compared to the next pimp down the road. Kor Upkar (Favour Me) https://youtu.be/hnJqMnUHnSA Filhos de Terra (Sons of the Soil) https://youtu.be/wI9osSzbnvA Roland. Toronto.
