05/10/2005
THOMAS STEPHENS KONKNNI KENDR
B.B. Borkar Road, Alto Porvorim, GOA - 403521
( (0832) 2415857, 2415864
E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website:www.tskk.org
October 5, 2005
Dr. Pratap Naik, S.J.
Director
SECOND EDITION OF TSKK KONKANI ORTHOGRAPHY IN ROMAN
SCRIPT
The first edition of "TSKK Romi Lipi" a booklet of 52
pages which deals with the modified Roman orthography
of Thomas Stephens Konknni Kendr (TSKK) to write
Konkani in Roman script, was released by the veteran
Konkani singer Mr. Ullas Buyanv on 15th August at
Grace Church Hall, Margão. TSKK printed 750 copies.
Within a month all copies were sold out. TSKK
improved and edited the text and now published the
second edition of the book on 2 October, Gandhi
Jayanti Day. Since there is a demand for this booklet
1000 copies have been printed. The book is written
by Dr. Pratap Naik, S.J and it is published by TSKK,
Alto Porvorim. TSKK took the initiative to modify the
existing Roman orthography to suit the Konkani speech
sounds, the requirements of e-mail and other computer
applications. TSKK has evolved an orthography for
Konkani which is scientific and at the same time user
friendly. TSKK orthography makes use of a linear
typing system without diacritics, making use of only
the standard computer keyboard. It has used 24
alphabets of the Roman alphabet and added only two
phonetic symbols available on the keyboard. Except
three major and one minor speech sound all other
speech sounds of Konkani are correctly represented in
TSKK orthography.At present among all the
orthographies used to write Konkani in any
script, TSKK Orthography is the closest to the
pronunciation. It has 96% accuracy. 100% accuracy
could not be attained because TSKK orthography makes
use of physically visible computer keyboard and avoids
diacritical marks. One has to read what is written
just like Sanskrit orthography. Therefore it
is ideal and best suited to write Konkani. This
booklet contains a few Konkani texts in TSKK Roman
Orthography, Devanagari and Kannada scripts. TSKK
hopes that these texts will help Konkanis, and others
to read and write Konkani in Roman script. The
booklet is available at TSKK office, Zito Almeida,
Margao, St. Paul's Bookshop, Panaji, Varsha Bookstall,
Panaji and at Bom Jesus Bookstall, Old Goa.
GODFREY J I GONSALVES
BORDA MARGA0 GOA
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