The name Canarim or Lingua Canarim, which is how the 16th century European Jesuit Thomas Stephens refers to it in the title of his famous work Arte da lingoa Canarim has always been intriguing. The Portuguese later started referring to Konkani as Lingua Concanim. Konkani was commonly referred to as Lingua Canarim by the Portuguese and Lingua Brahmana by Catholic missionaries. Learned Marathi speakers tend to call it Gomantaki. Konkani has been known by a variety of names: Canarim, Concanim, Gomantaki, Bramana, and Goani. The first reference of the name Konkani is in " Abhanga 263" of the 13th century Hindu Marathi saint poet, Namadeva (1270–1350). Reference to the name Konkani is not found in literature prior to the 13th century. It is quite possible that Old Konkani was just referred to as Prakrit by its speakers. This could be attributed to the confluence of immigrants that the Konkan coast has witnessed over the years. Linguists describe Konkani as a fusion of variety of Prakrits. It is inflexive, and less distant from Sanskrit as compared to other modern Indo-Aryan languages. It is part of the Marathi-Konkani group of the southern Indo-Aryan languages. Konkani belongs to the Indo-Aryan language branch. 14.3 Digital/Websites/E-Books/Audio Books in Konkani.4.2 Recognition as an independent language.Dialects such as Malvani, Chitpavani, East Indian Koli and Aagri in coastal Maharashtra, are also threatened by language assimilation into the linguistic majority of non-Konkani States of India. There are many Konkani dialects spoken along and beyond the Konkan, from Damaon in the north to Cochin in the South, most of which are only partially mutually intelligible with one another due to a lack of linguistic contact and exchanges with the standard and principle forms of Konkani.
It retains elements of Vedic structures and shows similarities with both Western and Eastern Indo-Aryan languages. Konkani is a member of the Southern Indo-Aryan language group. It is a minority language in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala, Gujarat and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. The first Konkani inscription is dated 1187 A.D. It is one of the 22 Scheduled languages mentioned in the 8th schedule of the Indian Constitution and the official language of the Indian state of Goa. Konkani ( Kōṅkaṇī) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Konkani people, primarily along the western coastal region ( Konkan) of India. Distribution of native Konkani speakers in India
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