Kannada , formerly also known as Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern … See more

Early traces
The earliest Kannada inscriptions are from the middle of the 5th century AD, but there are a number of … See more

Old Kannada
The oldest known existing record of Kannada poetry in Tripadi metre is the Kappe Arabhatta record … See more

Kannada had 43.5 million native speakers in India at the time of the 2011 census. It is the main language of the state of Karnataka, where it is spoken natively by 40.6 million people, … See more

The sources of influence on literary Kannada grammar appear to be three-fold: Pāṇini's grammar, non-Pāṇinian schools of Sanskrit grammar, particularly Katantra and Sakatayana … See more

There is also a considerable difference between the spoken and written forms of the language. Spoken Kannada tends to vary from region to … See more

The language uses forty-nine phonemic letters, divided into three groups: swaragalu (vowels – thirteen letters); vyanjanagalu (consonants – thirty-four letters); and yogavaahakagalu (neither vowel nor consonant – two letters: anusvara See more