{{Short description|Konkani dialects}} {{Distinguish|Goan Konkani}} {{Citations needed|date= August 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} {{Use Indian English|date=June 2017}} {{Infobox language | name = Maharashtri Kokani | altname = Konkan Marathi | nativename = महाराष्ट्रीय कोकणी | states = India | region = Konkan | speakers = {{sigfig|2.42|2}} million | date = 2001 census | ref = e18 | familycolor = Indo-European | fam2 = Indo-Iranian | fam3 = Indo-Aryan | fam4 = Southern Zone | fam5 = Marathi–Konkani | script = Devanagari (official), Latin, Kannada, Malayalam and Persian | dialects = Thakri, Parabhi, Koli, Kiristanva, Kunbi, Agri Dhangari, Karadhi, Sangameshwari, Bankoti, Maoli | iso3 = knn | glotto = konk1267 | glottorefname = Konkan Marathi }} thumb|Venn diagram of the ISO designations of the Konkani languages
'''Maharashtri Konkani''' or '''Konkan Marathi''', is a group of Marathi-Konkani dialects, spoken in the Konkan, that differ from Marathi.<ref>{{cite book | last1=Upton | first1=Robert E. | title=The Thought of Bal Gangadhar Tilak: An Intellectual Biography | date=2024 | publisher=Oxford University Press | isbn=978-0-19-890065-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Ib0EAAAQBAJ&dq=Maharashtri+Konkani&pg=PA29 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/konk1267|title = Glottolog 4.4 - Konkan Marathi}}</ref> George Abraham Grierson, a British Indian 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.<ref>[http://www.rosettaproject.org/archive/knn/detail-1?page_view=image_view Konkani Detailed Description — ]{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==See also== * Malvani language
==References== {{Reflist}}{{Incubator|knn}}{{Indo-Aryan languages}} Category:Languages of India Category:Konkani Category:Marathi language Category:Languages written in Devanagari