The Indo-Aryan or Indic languages form a major language family of South Asia. They constitute a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, themselves a branch of the Indo-European language family. As of the early 21st century more than 800 million people speak Indo-Aryan languages, primarily in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Moreover, large immigrant and expatriate Indo-Aryan-speaking communities live in Northwestern Europe, Western Asia, North America, Southeast Africa and Australia. There are well over 200 known Indo-Aryan languages.
Dadra and Nagar Haveli is a district of the Indian union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu in western India. It is composed of two separate geographical entities: Nagar Haveli, wedged between Maharashtra and Gujarat and 1 km to the northwest, the smaller enclave of Dadra, which is surrounded by Gujarat. Silvassa is the administrative headquarters of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Konkan, also known as the Konkan Coast, is a rugged section of the western coastline of India. Konkan proceeds from the north at Daman in the Gulf of Cambay, extends southwards all along the western seaside land areas of Maharashtra and Goa, and meets the Canara coast at the northern edge of Karwar district of Karnataka.
Konkani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Konkani people, primarily along the western coastal region (Konkan) of India. 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. The first Konkani inscription is dated 1187 A.D. It is a minority language in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala, Gujarat and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
Saurashtra is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Saurashtrians of Southern India who migrated from the Lata region of present-day Gujarat to south of Vindhyas in the Middle Ages.
The Bhil languages are a group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken in 2011 by around 10.4 million Bhils in western and central India. They constitute the primary languages of the southern Aravalli Range in Rajasthan and the western Satpura Range in Madhya Pradesh, northwestern Maharashtra, and southern Gujarat. According to the 52nd report of the commissioner for linguistic minorities in India, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Bhili is the most commonly spoken language of the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli constituting 40.42% of its total population. Bhili speakers are also significant in the states of Gujarat (4.75%), Madhya Pradesh (4.93%) and Rajasthan (4.60%).
Maharashtri or Maharashtri Prakrit, is a language of ancient as well as medieval India and the ancestor of Marathi and Konkani.
Malvani is a dialect of Konkani with significant Marathi influences and loanwords. Though Malvani does not have a unique script, script of Devnagari language is used. Devanagari is used by most of the speakers. Malvani is very popular language used for sarcastic newspaper articles and local folk stage dramas known as Dashavatar.
The Marathi-Konkani languages are the mainland Southern Indic languages, spoken in Maharashtra and the Konkan region of India.
Chitpavani is a dialect of the Konkani language as spoken by the Chitpavan Brahmin community residing chiefly in Konkan area. Chitpavans, as they are known today, evolved as a community in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, India. This region lies on the western coast of the country. Chitpavans in Ratnagiri speak a peculiar dialect called Chitpavani, which was spoken in the district until the 1950s, but as time went on, people in the district adopted Marathi as their language.
Canarese Konkani is a minority language spoken by the Konkani people of Karnataka and in some parts of Kerala.
Konkani is a southern Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-European family of languages spoken in the Konkan coast of India. It has approximately 3.6 million speakers.
Maharashtrian Konkani more commonly spelt as Maharashtri Kokani is a group of Konkanic dialects spoken in the Konkan region. George Abraham Grierson, a British linguist of the colonial era referred to these dialects as the Konkan Standard of Marathi in order to differentiate it inside the Konkani language group.
The tribal Kukna (Kokna) and Dhodia peoples speak a Bhil language in parts of Gujarat, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan.
The Phudagi language, also known as Vadvali, is a language or dialect of the Marathi–Konkani group. This language is spoken by Panchkalshi and Chaukalshi communities residing in Palghar, Vasai localities.
Tirahi, also called Dardù, is a nearly extinct if not already extinct Dardic language of the Kohistani group spoken in a few villages in the southeast of Jalalabad in the Nangarhar Province of eastern Afghanistan. It is spoken by older adults, who are likewise fluent in Pashto.
Kokna is an Indian tribal community found in Sahyadri-Satpura Ranges of Maharashtra and is believed to have originated in the Konkan patti of Thane district. It is also known as Kokna, Kokni, and Kukna. There are various opinions regarding the origin of this tribe since no adequate research has been made. They are recognized as a scheduled tribe in the Indian states of Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Rajasthan.
