 Historians say that the period of migration of Daivajñas and the "Kudāldeskārs", from the northern part of India is same, and they settled in Goa in the same period, for this reason members of both the communities speak the same dialect of Koṅkaṇī in Goa.Historically, many scripts have been used writing either Koṅkaṇī or Marāṭhī.An extinct script called as Goykanadi was used by the traders in the early 16th century.