At the Goa Book Club later today, Damodar Ghanekar will speak on his monumental dictionary that he recently produced. As always, the venue is the Broadway Book Centre, on 18th June Road, Panjim.
This is how Augusto Pinto recently described it: QUOTE FROM AUGUSTO PINTO: I recently purchased the Rajhans publication 'Konkani Sachitr Ashtangi Abhyaskosh' (roughly Konkani Illustrated Comprehensive Scholarly-Dictionary) published in 2009. It is edited by Damodar Keshav Ghanekar and its Technical Advisor is Suresh Jaywant Borkar and has 2029 pages besides another 81 pages of Introduction and Appendices. It is by far the most elaborate Konkani - Konkani dictionary published so far. Although it is in the Devanagari script, it does indicate roots of words in the Roman script, when words are derived from Portuguese, English and foreign languages. Besides meanings, it has an Introduction which describes the development of the Konkani language, and also gives word etymologies, pronunciation, idioms and phrases, grammatical issues and other matters. The dictionary costs Rs 3700/ for institutions although the price is Rs 1200/ for individuals. UNQUOTE Some more links, not all related to the above: Damodar K.K. Ghanekar contacts http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/5329902800/ Konkani/English - English/Konkani Vocabulary (Dictionary) By Mohan Anand Prabhu, Ottawa, Canada Online and downloadable http://www.konkanifoundation.com/ancy/konkanidictionary.pdf 40 KONKANI PRAYERS (Mangalorean Konkani Prayers in Roman Script) Transliterated by Ancy Paladka Imprimatur: Most Rev Aloysius Paul D Souza, †Bishop of Managalore 10th August 2004, Feast of St Lawrence, Martyr and Deacon http://www.konkanifoundation.com/ancy/40prayers.txt FileSize: 30 KB Popular Marian Konkani Hymns transliterated by Ancy Paladka http://www.konkanifoundation.com/ancy/KonkaniHymns.txt FileSize: 6 KB Goan Konkani Prayers http://www.konkanifoundation.com/ancy/GoanKonkaniPrayers.txt FileSize: 3 KB Prayers in English http://www.konkanifoundation.com/ancy/EnglishPrayers.txt FileSize: 8 KB VOVIO & Laudate Domino for Wedding http://www.konkanifoundation.com/ancy/vovio.doc FileSize: 71 KB http://www.konkanifoundation.com/ancy/vovio.txt FileSize: 5 KB Konkani dictionary http://www.konkanidictionary.com/ (Kannada script) http://manglorean.net/konkani/ (multiple scripts) Konkani Dictionary Project http://www.facebook.com/savemylanguage An English-Konkani Dictionary: And A Konakani-English Dictionary. (1883) http://www.archive.org/details/anenglishkonkan00bygoog New English-Konkani dictionary ready http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/02/stories/2007020212980400.htm [Some mistakes above: Konkani language had its first Konkani-Portuguese dictionary in 1567, not the 19th century! Krista Purana was written or published probably in 1616. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krista_Purana ) A description of Dotourina Crista http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MangaloreanCatholics/message/3081 Goa Book Club http://groups.google.com/group/goa-book-club FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 (after 2pm) #784 Nr Lourdes Convent, Saligao 403511 Goa India http://fn.goa-india.org http://goa1556.goa-india.org
