RE. CHURCH BEING SILENT ON THE ROMAN SCRIPT KONKANI Let me ask our Goanetters if you are really Goans !!! Does it only mean that either You or your ancestors happen to originate from Goa makes us Goans. The language Is one factor which binds a family and so to say the community together.
How many of us do write in Roman Script Konkanni on this newsletter to Goanet ? Pity, I feel I am more on an English language mailing list. Does the Church in Goa use Devnagiri Script for all their liturgical books ? No, Its the Roman Script. Ixtt and other Roman Script konkani Magazines are brought out by the Clergy. The Church has kept the Roman Script konkani alive by using it daily. The Church has and is using the local language whereever its present. In the Suburbs Of Mumbai from Dahisar onward where the local East Indian community speak Marathi, The Church has all its Doctorine and liturgy in Marathi. I feel sad to see how our own Goans who have no pride for their mother tongue Konkanni are also trying to rob this small Comminuty of East Indians of the Marathi Church services and impose English on them!!! We feel degraded to speak in our own House let alone outside. Look at the people from other Indian States. They proudly Speak their mother toungue in public. Its not The Church which has remained silent but its the Goan people who have Betrayed their mother tongue Konkanni. Spare The Church of joining Politics which is dirty. Look around the world at what wonders Peoples Power can do. First of all lets Start using our mother tongue proudly which we have betrayed. Kind regards to all Goans Rosario Abel Fernandes Margao Goa