Konkani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Konkani people, primarily in the Konkan region, along the western coast of India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages mentioned in the Indian Constitution, and the official language of the Indian state of Goa.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2000-2011 estimate, native speakers; the infobox gives this as the inclusive code kok figure, which also covers the Goan Konkani and Maharashtrian Konkani individual codes. StatusWikipedia article on Konkani: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. Attested From (Year) RegionSouthern and Western India (Konkan region) 1 Classification
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Source Wikipedia: Konkani Language
Source Wikipedia: Konkani Language
Written In
Konkani in India is standardly written in the Devanagari script (its official script under the Goa Official Language Act).
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1. Wikipedia: Konkani Language
Wikimedia FoundationLead section
Konkani ( KONG-kÉ™-nee), formerly Concani, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Konkani people, primarily in the Konkan region, along the western coast of India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages mentioned in the Indian Constitution, and the official language of the Indian state of Goa.
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kok
Infobox: date
2000-2011
Infobox: region
Southern and Western India (Konkan region) Goa coastal areas of Karnataka, Maharashtra and some parts of Kerala Gujarat (in the Dang district) Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
Lead section, earliest inscription
The first known Konkani inscription, dated to the 2nd century AD and sometimes claimed as "Old Marathi" is the one at Arvalem; the second oldest Konkani inscription, is one of those at Shravanabelagola, dated to between 981 AD and 1117 AD, it was wrongly touted as "Old Marathi" from the time it was discovered and interpreted.
Official status, Konkani entity page
It is one of the 22 scheduled languages mentioned in the Indian Constitution, and the official language of the Indian state of Goa.
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Indo-Iranian
In Family: Indo-Aryan, Infobox, Language family
Indo-Aryan
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