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Panaji: Konkani will soon receive a place among 50 other languages from across the world, in the Holy Land. "It is a great honour for us that Konkani will share space with languages from around the world. He had further said that the language is spoken by around four million people across India, with approximately another three million Konkanophones spread throughout the globe. The panel will remain for posterity and will be visible to the hundreds of Goans who visit the holy site," Siqueira said.A Konkani translation of the 'Our Father', already shares space with over 150 other translations of the venerated Christian prayer at the Church of Pater Noster (Our Father) on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. A ceramic tablet bearing the verses of the Magnificatthe Virgin Mary's canticle of praise to the Lordin Konkani, is being installed at the Shrine of the Visitation in Ein Karem on the outskirts of Jerusalem; a site visited by thousands of pilgrims throughout the year.The 120x85cm panel of the Magnificat in Konkani is being placed beside those containing the words of the same hymn in Belarusian, Georgian, Amharic and Malayalam..