Re: [Goanet] - In defense of our Heritage -MODI-BRAHMI

2002-08-13 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Jorge, Modi is the cursive hand of the Nagari (aka Devnagiri script). The original script for Konkani is considered to be Brahmi* from which many other Indian scripts have evolved as well as the ones in Cambodia and Thailand (i find these scripts visually appealing). There are people around

Re: [Goanet] - In defense of our Heritage -

2002-08-11 Thread Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am proud to write that we should learn to write Konkani as we > did before the advent of the Portuguese. I don't think that before the advent of the Portuguese Konkani in Goa was written in the Devnagri script, but rather (or mostly) in the Kannada script and also, i

Re: [Goanet] - In defense of our Heritage - corrected version

2002-08-10 Thread EdgarStmartins
In a message dated 8/10/02 4:52:09 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << It is interesting to note the viewpoint that J. de Abreu Noronha holds regarding the use of different scripts to express our state language. I too held this viewpoint some years back and hotly disc

Re: [Goanet] - In defense of our Heritage -

2002-08-10 Thread EdgarStmartins
It is interesting to note the viewpoint that J. de Abreu Noronha holds regarding the use of different scripts to express our state language. I too held this viewpoint some years back and hotly discussed the topic with another Goan who maintained that Konkani could only be expressed or could