The Portuguese later started referring to Konkani as Língua Concanim. Konkani was commonly referred to as Língua Canarim by the Portuguese and Língua 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. Dialects such as Malvani, Chitpavani, Bombay East Indian, Koli and Aagri in coastal Maharashtra are also threatened by language assimilation into the linguistic majority of non-Konkani states and territories of India. It is also spoken by migrants outside of the Konkan proper in Nagpore, Surat, Cochin, Mangalore, Ahmedabad, Karachi, New Delhi etc. There are many Konkani dialects spoken along and beyond the Konkan region, from Damaon in the north to Karwar 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 principal forms of Konkani. The first Konkani inscription is dated 1187 AD. 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 also spoken in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala, Gujarat as well as Damaon, Diu & Silvassa. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages mentioned in the Indian Constitution, and the official language of the Indian state of Goa. Konkani ( Devanagari: कोंकणी, Kannada: ಕೊಂಕಣಿ, Malayalam: കൊംകണീ, Perso-Arabic: کونکنی, Romi: Konknni, IAST: Kōṅkaṇī, IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Konkani people, primarily in the Konkan region, along the western coast of India. Distribution of native Konkani speakers in India
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