Great news

[John de Figueiredo]

Goan Konkani is now part of Google Translate.
JM de Figueiredo

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[Frederick Noronha]

The translations are into Devanagari Konkani and in the dialect (Antruzi) used for the official language. This tends to overlook a lot of the diversity currently in use in Goa. However, the Konkani vocabulary of Google Translate seems to be improving with more people using it over time. (This was launched about a year back, see one news report here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKNQzq-e4yE from a Youth of GSB Karnataka channel.) 

Besides that, there is also the Konkanvert, which not only transliterates from one script of Konkani to another, but also tries to get the corresponding dialects more or less right. See it at http://konkanverter.com/

Konkanverter currently supports Kannada (Louis Barap and Banglekar Barap) script, Romi script and Malayalam script, besides Devanagari. When used in conjunction with Google Translate (for Konkani), the result comes out fair. But a dictionary on hand will help to fine-tune perhaps. FN

[John Nazareth]

Konkani has been in Google translate for around a year now, but the problem for us in the diaspora was that it is in the Devanagari script.
What Frederick Noronha has now circulated is a converter from one Konkani script to another and that has provide the last piece to the jigsaw.
Thanks Frederick.
It is a little cumbersome, but it works.
i.e - 1) English to Konkani Devanagri 2) Konkani Devanagri to Konkani Romi.
John

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[John de Figueiredo]

Why is Antruzi (the dialect of Antruz or Ponda’) considered official (as opposed to other dialects)?

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[John de Figueiredo]

Thank you, Frederick, for this helpful information.

JM de Figueiredo 

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[Frederick Noronha]

Antruzi is the dialect that goes with the Devanagari script of Konkani. Just as the Bardezi dialect (in our times) goes with Romi. Was surprised to learn that the now derided Saxtti was considered standard Konkani in the 15th-17th centuries.

Konkani remains a confusing and often misunderstand topic in Goa, the politics of which are probably not sufficiently studied too.

Please see one recent thesis on the Salcete Christian Konkani, with special reference to the Sudhir-Gawadas:

Please use this link for citation	http://hdl.handle.net/10603/312417
Title of the Thesis	A linguistic study of salcete christian dialect with special reference to Sudir Gawdas
Name of the Researcher	Vaz, Denis
Name of the Guide	Sardesai, Madhavi and Bhembre, Uday
Completed Year	2018
Name of the Department	Department of Konkani
Name of the University	Goa University Created and maintained by INFLIBNET Centre

https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/10603/312417

Like most recent academic studies, this is in the Devanagari script though. FN

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