Learn Konkani: Konkani alphabet chart and letters

Learning Konkanim language

About Konkani

Konkani is one of the 22 languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India and the official language of Goa. The 2011 Census counted 22.6 lakh people in India whose mother tongue it is. It is written in Devanagari in Goa; also in the Roman, Kannada and Malayalam scripts along the coast. It was added to the Eighth Schedule in 1992.

Links

To go further: Bharatavani, the portal of India's languages run by the Central Institute of Indian Languages, has dictionaries, primers and books in Konkani.

• Goa Konkani Akademi: Government of Goa: Konkani literature, classes and awards
• Sahitya Akademi: India's national academy of letters (Ministry of Culture): books, translations and the yearly awards in Konkani and the other languages of India

Sources: Census of India 2011, Language (Paper 1 of 2018), speakers of the scheduled languages; the Constitution of India, Eighth Schedule.