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<div>{{short description|Spoken language in Mumbai}}<br />
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{{about|the East Indian language, the native language of the people of [[Mumbai]] | information on other topics|East India (disambiguation)<!-- Note: "East India (disambiguation)" not "East India" per [[WP:DISAMBIG#Links to disambiguation pages]]. -->}}<br />
{{Infobox language<br />
| name = East Indian language<br />
| nativename = ईस्ट इंडियन<br />
| pronunciation = {{IPA|East indian}} (popular)<br />
| region = [[Greater Bombay]] in [[Maharashtra]]<br />
| ethnicity = [[East Indians]]<br />
| speakers = 600,000<br />
| date = 2013<br />
| ref = <ref name="bapp">{{cite news|last1=Kumar|first1=Raksha|title=The original East Indians|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/the-original-east-indians/article4959668.ece|access-date=20 December 2016|work=The Hindu|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625130307/http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/the-original-east-indians/article4959668.ece|archive-date=25 June 2017}}</ref><br />
| familycolor = Indo-European<br />
| fam2 = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]<br />
| fam3 = [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]<br />
| fam4 = [[Southern Indo-Aryan languages|Southern Zone]]<br />
| fam5 = [[Marathi–Konkani languages|Marathi–Konkani]]<br />
| script = [[Devanagari]], [[Romi Konkani|Roman Script]]<br />
| isoexception = dialect<br />
| linglist = <br />
| notice = Indic<br />
| glotto = none<br />
| notice2 = IPA<br />
}}<br />
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The '''East Indian language''', also known as '''''Mobai Marathi''''' and '''East Indian Mahratti''', is the dominant dialect of the [[Marathi-Konkani]] languages spoken in [[Bombay (Mumbai)]], it has significant [[Indo-Portuguese]] influence and loanwords.<ref name="bapp"/> It does not have a unique script of its own, scripts of the other languages such as [[Devanagari]] and the [[Romi Konkani|Roman script]] are used by most of its speakers, who are the native Christians of the northern [[Konkan division]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The East Indian Dialect |url=https://www.sahapedia.org/the-east-indian-dialect |website=Sahapedia |access-date=12 July 2021 |language=en |archive-date=6 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210606093921/https://www.sahapedia.org/the-east-indian-dialect |url-status=live }}</ref> It is a very popular language used for songs and dramas.<br />
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==Differences from standard Marathi==<br />
All pronouns have a change from ''yah'' to ''te''. Words in Marathi for yes, where, here, there, have different East Indian counterparts. Other grammatical nuances differ from standard-spoken Marathi.<ref>{{cite news|title=East Indian dictionary to preserve local Marathi dialect - TOI Mobile {{!}} The Times of India Mobile Site|url=http://m.timesofindia.com/city/mumbai/East-Indian-dictionary-to-preserve-local-Marathi-dialect/articleshow/14788849.cms|access-date=20 December 2016|work=m.timesofindia.com|archive-date=24 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190124060421/https://m.timesofindia.com/city/mumbai/East-Indian-dictionary-to-preserve-local-Marathi-dialect/articleshow/14788849.cms|url-status=live}}</ref><br />
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==Historical references==<br />
{{Main article|Portuguese Bombay and Bassein|Bombay Presidency|East indians}}<br />
From the early days of the [[East India Company]], there were no other Indian Christians in the North Konkan except the East Indian Catholics. Employments that were intended for Christians, were the monopoly of the [[East Indians]]. With development, came in railways and steamship, a boon for the travelling public. And with that came a number of immigrants from [[Goa]] who were also known as Portuguese Christians. The British found it expedient to adopt a designation which would distinguish the Christians of North Konkan who were British subjects and the Goan, who were Portuguese subjects (Mangalorean Catholics were not Portuguese subjects at this point any more). Accordingly, on the occasion of The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, the Christians of North Konkan, who were known as "Portuguese Christians" discarded that name and adopted the designation '''"East Indian"'''. By the adoption of the name "East Indian" they wanted to impress upon the British Government of Bombay that they were the earliest Roman Catholic Subjects of the British Crown in this part of India, in as much as parts of Bombay, by its cession in 1661, were the first foothold the British acquired in India, after Surat. As the children of the soil, they urged on the Government, that they were entitled to certain natural rights and privileges as against the immigrants.<ref>{{cite book<br />
|last=Baptista<br />
|first=Elsie Wilhelmina<br />
|title= The East Indians: Catholic Community of Bombay, Salsette and Bassein <br />
|year=1967<br />
|publisher=Bombay East Indian Association}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Mahratti]]<br />
*[[Konknni]]<br />
*[[Bombay Hindi]]<br />
*[[British English]]<br />
*[[Indian English]]<br />
*[[List of topics on the Portuguese Empire in the East]]<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
{{Wikibooks|East Indian Marathi}}<br />
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*[http://bombayland.blogspot.in/2011/11/aboriginal-inhabitants-of-bombay.html?m=1 BOMBAY's ORIGINAL NATIVES - EASTINDIANS & KOLIS]<br />
*[http://www.east-indians.com/language.htm The East Indian Community]<br />
*[http://www.phyre.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/the-east-indians-of-bombay Who are these East Indians you speak of?]<br />
{{Marathi language topics}}<br />
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