William Robert Da Silva,I was involved in curriculum issues re. education among
the Mohawks, who live in Eastern North America, on both sides of the
U.S./Canadian border.
At the time, the Mohawk language was ‘dying’, & only 10% spoke it. Today it is
over 60%The educational institutions, from kindergarten to high school
introduced Mohawk language classes. The issue was whether it could be a ‘living
language’ again. It has become so, spoken in business, & with kids in the
playing ground. That has not been an issue on the west coast of India, but has
been among Goan Christians. I recall when I visited Goa, Konkani with the
Devanagari script was introduced in schools, & many wanted to retain the Roman
script as well. My understanding is that it was not ‘officially’ retained by
the powers-that-be. Over here, Mohawk has always been an ‘oral language’, so
the Roman script has been introduced successfully. My understanding is that
Konkani enjoying a Renaissance. One of the issues is whether a ‘culture’ &
lifestyle, & ‘identity’, can flourish ‘in translation’, i.e., in translation,
using English. Is the idiom of the original language lost, the history of
particular words in its culture, etc.. With Konkani, of course, much would be
lost, if one went to English or Narathi, vis-à-vis cultural detention.
Mohawk has flourished, pride in one’s identity, & it has also become the
language of local business & contributed to mental well-being. Just fyi, but it
is a matter of survival of a people & their culture.
On Sunday, May 5, 2024, 02:42, John Nazareth <jhr_nazar...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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When people talk about the issue of Konkani being larger than Goa I get the
impression that people are suggesting that the language pertains to a people
that extend beyond the boundaries of Goa.
>From the numerous books I have purchased and read I have somewhat different
>impression.
It is one of Konkani being birthed in Goa due to geography – the ghats creating
a barrier of sorts in the centuries past that slowed movement outside and
allowed the developed of Konkani as a sister language to those like Marathi
from the Sanskrit root.
Portuguese colonialization may well have caused this movement of people outside
Goa’s boundaries and the adoption of other scripts would have come about.
The case of Mangaloreans is an obvious one – but I think that the Kokni Muslims
are also of Goan roots.
Is there a study that examined this?
John
From: goa-research-net@googlegroups.com <goa-research-net@googlegroups.com>On
Behalf Of fredericknoronha
Sent: Sunday, May 5, 2024 12:51 AM
To: Goa-Research-Net <goa-research-net@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [GRN] Jason Keith Fernandes: Citizenship in a caste polity:
Religion, Lamguage and Belonging in Goa (Orient Blackswan, 2020)
Dear Dr William,
Those are not my views, but Jason's... and shared here for discussion.
You should share more of your work here, we will all learn from it, for sure. FN
On Sunday 5 May 2024 at 10:15:28 UTC+5:30 wrdsilva wrote:
Fred, you will realise the issue of Konkani is larger than Goa, as a
union territory on appropriation and a state within the Indian Union.
Konkani is outside Goa with at least three scripts. I lived through
this period when neither Jason nor you were active and cooperated with
the Konkani Movement from Kanara without yielding to the policy of
nagari alone as the script of Konkani, at the level of the Sahitya
Akademi and its decisions. I was an active and official member of this
movement. In reality, Shenoy Goybab's birth centenary was celebrated
by me in Mangalore, in Don Bosco Hall to which all Konkani mogi came
in five buses in 1977. I had earlier organised an exhibition of all
Konkani Books available in Mangalore with eight mogi and Goa was
surprised.
William Robert Da Silva
Wi
On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 7:46 PM Frederick Noronha
<frederic...@gmail.com> wrote:
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