Anytime, Cip, only i do not want to spark a debate
that has silicon melt in poor Herman's mainframe ! A
couple of points: some saraswats became Catholics, you
can be sure that many of Ratnagiri's Konkanni
speaking Moslems must have had Hindu Sarasvat
antecedents. In 1990, twenty thousand of them in Cape
Town claimed Konkanni as the language spoken at home
in a census filing. WE, this time a deliberate
emphasis on we, colonised Goa, settled on
Pond-Manguesh as the new home of Tribe's Gods, then
got the Nilotics who were there first to speak our
tongue ! In fact, it is believed that those Southern
cattle herdsmen gave Goa its name - Go-Man, or
cow-people. From the Punjab, to the Central Provinces
to Kerala(50,000), the Sarasvat, who typically has
never made it to Goa, speaks Konkanni at home, even as
he assimilates locally from nine to five. Disown it
all after three thousand years, perhaps, but will
leave it to the next generation.eric.
--- C Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Eric,
Could you be kind enough to explain the meaning of
i am sure we Saraswats
?
With kind regards,
Cip
-Original Message-
eric pinto, Sent: 08 September 2003 22:10
WE call it sheergo/sheerko, and it goes by the
same label in Persia and
Afghanistan. Given our Kandahari origins, i am sure
we Saraswats were
familiar with the liquid millenia before chef Vasco
made port in Calicut !
eric.
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