Kannada - Wikipedia Kannada (IPA: [ˈkənːəɖa]) [4] is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a second or third language for 15 million speakers in Karnataka [1]
Kannada language and alphabet - Omniglot Kannada is the official and administrative language of Karnataka, and was officially designated a classical language of India in 2011 It is also known as Banglori, Canarese, Havyaka or Kanarese Kannada first appeared in writing as words in Tamil inscriptions dating from the 3rd-1st centuries BC
Kannada - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kannada is a Dravidian language, which is a different language family from the Indo-European or Aryan languages of the north, such as Hindi but close to the other southern languages like Telugu It has about 1200 years of written history
When did Kannada begin? Tracing the origins of a language and . . . Scholar of Kannada Hampa Nagarajaiah, better known as Hampana, points to a sizable corpus of Kannada literature produced by Jain poets, patriarchs and pontiffs before the emergence of Kavirajamarga In a 2019 essay critiquing Pollock’s work, Hampana writes about Tumbaluracharya, who in the 6th-7th century wrote a voluminous work called
A Complete Overview of the Kannada Language Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), also referred to as Kanarese, is a Dravidian language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Karnataka With over 45 million native speakers, Kannada is one of India’s 22 scheduled languages and the official language of Karnataka