220:. Their speech varies considerably from the speech of the Goan Hindus. They also speak two considerably different dialects: Bardes Christian dialect, spoken in Bardes and Tiswadi which form the northern part of the Old Conquests and Saxtti Christian dialect, spoken in Sashti and Mormugao which form the southern part of the Old Conquests. However, these two dialects have certain common features which can be referred to as Goan Christian Konkani features. The major Konkani dialects of Karnataka are the Karnataka Saraswat dialect, spoken by the Saraswat Brahmins of the coastal districts of Karnataka, and Karnataka Christian dialect, spoken by Christians in the coastal districts of Karnataka. The Saraswats and Christians of Karnataka also speak considerably different dialects since they came to Karnataka from different parts of Goa and at different times. The Saraswats came from southern Old Conquests (Sashti and Mormugao) in the sixteenth century because of Portuguese religious persecution. The Christians came in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries mainly from Bardes and Tiswadi.
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967:Afrikaans
784:Sauraseni
679:Malayalam
648:Goykanadi
619:Nawayathi
385:Citations
324:Footnotes
260:Glossary
194:Structure
184:Karnataka
105:July 2024
1501:Romanian
1310:Japanese
1268:Biblical
1255:Hawaiian
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1193:Parisian
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985:Egyptian
957:Acehnese
929:Pronouns
904:Grammars
820:Gujarati
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798:Existing
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297:See also
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159:, where
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1629:Yiddish
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1579:Tagalog
1563:Swedish
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1436:Occitan
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1406:Marathi
1350:Latvian
1330:Kurdish
1320:Konkani
1305:Italian
1290:Ingrian
1259:Hebrew
1233:Ancient
1218:Bernese
1209:German
1189:French
1185:Finnish
1180:Faroese
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1072:Chukchi
1050:Hokkien
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1027:Burmese
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1007:Avestan
976:Arabic
881:of the
815:Kannada
779:Paisaci
767:Extinct
674:Kannada
657:Present
633:Scripts
609:Malwani
491:History
484:Konkani
340:Marathi
169:Maratha
165:Bahmani
130:Konkani
89:scholar
1609:Uyghur
1541:Somali
1531:Slovak
1471:Polish
1461:Pashto
1456:Ottawa
1441:Ojibwe
1426:Nepali
1421:Navajo
1335:Kyrgyz
1325:Korean
1263:Modern
1224:Greek
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1091:Dutch
1087:Danish
990:Hejazi
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1546:Sotho
1516:Scots
1451:Oromo
1401:Māori
1391:Malay
1345:Latin
1315:Kiowa
1300:Irish
1295:Inuit
1238:Koine
1082:Czech
934:Verbs
919:Nouns
728:Media
669:Roman
545:Tiatr
274:Hold
96:JSTOR
82:books
1634:Zuni
1589:Taos
437:ISBN
404:ISBN
288:Bud
285:kaḷo
282:koḷo
279:koḷo
271:dhar
268:dhor
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68:news
1572:T–Z
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