East Indian language

East Indian language
East Indian language
पूर्व भारत
Pronunciation	Purv Bharat
Region	Greater Bombay in Konkan and also Maharashtra
Ethnicity	Bombay East Indians
Native speakers	600,000 (2013)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Southern Zone Marathi–Konkani East Indian language; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Devanagari, Roman Script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

The East Indian language or East Indian dialect, also known as Mobai Mahratti^{[failed verification]} and East Indian Marathi^{[failed verification]}, is the form of Marathi-Konkani languages spoken in Bombay (Mumbai).^[2] It has a significant amount of Indo-Portuguese loanwords.^[1] It does not have a unique script of its own: Devanagari and the Roman script are used by most of its speakers, who are the native Christians of the Seven Islands of Bombay in the northern Konkan division.^[2] Though the dialect is losing popular usage due to immigration, depopulation & Anglo-Americanisation among most of the younger generation. It is still used by some for songs and dramas, as well as in Christian worship since the Novus Ordo was approved in the 1960s.^{[citation needed]}

^ ^a ^b Kumar, Raksha. "The original East Indians". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 25 June 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
^ ^a ^b "The East Indian Dialect". Sahapedia. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.