that the influence of portuguese marathi kannada and arabic has further enriched konkani proverbs tem ghor demanan poddum may that house be bogged down in legal battles halarnkar explains that deman is a portuguese word and the ill wish concerns money being spent on advocates feesby now more than a dozen books on konkani proverbs have been published but many believe there are more waiting to be discovered noted konkani novelist damodar mauzo compared konkani proverbs to a source like a well the more you dig the more water you may get he saidde lima learned one from his friend from divar after his book was ready sorpan kat soddli mhonn to hotti zainam by casting off his skin the snake doesnt transform into an elephant but the threat to konkani looms due to migration disconnect of its people and popular use of english and other languages konkani writer and artiste purnanand chari laments that conversation itself has been gravely affected with people communicating through social media and emails urbanization is also taking a heavy toll on the language we tend to be shy in using our language in new environments for every two words in konkani we use four in english and this is impeding language growth he saidintergenerational transmission of language is hampered by the rising trend of nuclear families we must use opari in our novels writings and tiatr competitions must be held at the academic level and research encouraged at the higher level to induce curiosity for learning among the youth chari said