Devanagari and the Roman script are used by its speakers, who are the native Christians of the Seven Islands of Bombay in the northern Konkan division.
[2] The dialect is losing popular usage due to immigration, depopulation & anglo-americanisation among the younger generation.
However, it is still used to make songs and dramas, as well as in Christian worship since the Novus Ordo was approved in the 1960s.
Employments that were intended for Christians, were the monopoly of the Bombay East Indians.
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.