Dr. Sumitra Mangesh Katre (Prof. S.M. Katre) (11 April 1906 to 21 October 1998) a lexicographer, Indo Aryan and Paninian Linguist, was born on 11 April 1906 at Honnavar, Karnataka, and died on 21 October 1998 in San Jose, California, USA. Prof. Katre’s made the initiation of the gigantic Sanskrit Dictionary Project, Encyclopedic of Sanskrit on Historical Principles, with its 11 million slips preserved in the scriptorium. His work The Formation of Konkani is his tribute to his mother tongue Konkani

Konkani language

KonkaniKonkani is a name given to a group of several cognate dialects spoken along the narrow strip of land called Konkan, on the west coast of India. This is, however, somewhat an over-generalisation. Geographically, Konkan is defined roughly as the area between the river Damanganga to the north...

. S. M. Katre's 1966 work, The Formation of Konkani, which utilized the instruments of modern historical and comparative linguistics across six typical Konkani dialects, showed the formation of Konkani to be distinct from that of Marathi

Marathi language

Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...

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