Konkani

It has three million paying subscribers and is planning to expand and include other dialects like Maithili and Konkani, which are spoken in north-east and coastal-west India, respectively.

Mass is offered in multiple languages, including English, Arabic, Konkani, Tagalog and Sinhala, to cater to Catholics from India, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and other countries.

The prayers of the faithful during the Mass were read in languages spoken by foreign workers including Tagalog, Swahili, Malayalam, Tamil and Konkani.

Ms. Kamat and Mr. Rao had each traveled alone to New York City to be a part of a Konkani Youth Convention.

My auntie almost always made some kind of upma for breakfast or, as she called it in Konkani, usli.