Back Конкані Byelorussian कोंकणी लोक GOM कोंकणी लोग Hindi Orang Konkani ID Конкандар Kazakh Konkani (volk) Dutch Concanis Portuguese ᱠᱚᱸᱠᱬᱤ ᱦᱚᱲ SAT Konkani (narod) Serbo-Croatian კონკანი XMF
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 2.3 million[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Goa | 964,305[2] |
| Karnataka | 788,204 |
| Maharashtra | 399,204[citation needed] |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 96,305[citation needed] |
| Dang district, Gujarat | 92,210[citation needed] |
| Kerala | 70,000(approx.)[citation needed] |
| Languages | |
| Konkani Marathi, English, Kannada, Hindi, Indo-Portuguese and Gujarati (to a lesser extent) | |
| Religion | |
| Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism and Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| · Indo-Aryans · Tuluvas · Kannadigas · Luso-Indians · Marathis · Saurashtrians | |
The Konkani people are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group native to the Konkan region of the Indian subcontinent who speak various dialects of the Konkani language. Konkani is the state language of Goa and also spoken by populations in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Damaon and Kerala.[citation needed] Other Konkani speakers are found in Gujarat state.[citation needed] A large percentage of Konkani people are bilingual.[3]
- ^ "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
- ^ "Commissioner Linguistic Minorities (originally from Indian Census, 2001)". Archived from the original on 8 October 2007.
- ^ "Language in India". languageinindia.com. Retrieved 14 February 2017.