Admin Noronha is right. Konknni is an Indo-Aryan language. It is also an Indo-European and Indo-Iranian language because these are the supersets (i.e. family and group, respectively) from which all Indo-Aryan languages have descended. In fact, in the study of human cultural evolution Aryans is an older term for what are now called Indo-Europeans. The southern Indian languages such as Tamil and Malayalam do not belong to the Indo-Aryan branch of languages.
Cheers, Santosh --- On Thu, 5/5/11, Frederick Noronha <fredericknoro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=1333-16 > > and > > Konkani > > A language of India > > ISO 639-3: knn > > Population 4,000,000 in India. > Population total all countries: 4,004,490. > Region North and central coastal strip > of Maharashtra; Karnataka; > Dadra and Nagar Haveli; Kerala. Also in Canada. > Alternate names Bankoti, > Concorinum, Cugani, Central Konkan, North > Konkan, Konkan Standard, Konkanese, Konkani Mangalorean, > Kunabi > Dialects Agari of Kolaba, Parabhi > (Kayasthi, Damani), Koli, Kiristav, > Dhanagari, Bhandari, Thakuri (Thakari, Thakri, Thakua, > Thakura), > Karhadi, Sangamesvari (Bakoti, Bankoti), Ghati (Maoli), > Mahari (Dhed, > Holia, Parvari), Chitapavani. Dialects closely related; > Chitapavani > recognized as Standard Konkani. Local fishermen use the > Koli dialect > (Hukkeri). Related to Katkari [kfu] (dialects: Kathodi, > Katvadi), > Varli [vav], Phudagi [phd], Samvedi [smv], Mangelas. > Classification Indo-European, > Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Southern zone, Konkani > A member of macrolanguage Konkani [kok] (India). > Language use Official language. > Language development Newspapers. Radio > programs. Films. Dictionary. > Grammar. Bible: 1997. > Writing system Devanagari script, > official script. Kannada script, no > longer in use. Latin script, no longer in use. > Comments Hindu, Christian. > This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content > of the > print edition and may be cited as: > Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the > World, > Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online > version: > http://www.ethnologue.com/. > > 2011/5/5 Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão <drferdina...@hotmail.com>: > > Konkani if derived from Sanskrit, is not a an > ‘Indo-Aryan’ language. > > Sanskrit is a ‘Indo-European” language. : > > > > http://www.indoaryans.org/ > > > > http://www.indhistory.com/aryan.html > > > > Unless one wants to say it has derived from Kannada, > Tamil, Malayalam or > > Telegu. > > > > Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão. >