Konkani people from Karnataka use Kannada script . People in Goa use Roman script . The critics contend that Antruz dialect is unintelligible to most Goans , let alone other Konkanis , and that Devanagari is used very little as compared to Roman script in Goa or Kannada script in coastal Karnataka Prominent among the critics are Konkani Catholics in Goa , who have been at the forefront of the Konkani agitation in 1986 â `` 87 and have for long used the Roman script including producing literature in Roman script .