Kannada dialects

Main articles: Kannada language, Kannada literature, Kannada script, Kadamba script, and Kannadiga

Dialects of Kannada language

The Kannada language has many about 20 dialects.

Havyaka Kannada Sanketi Kannada Kundapura Kannada Gowda Kannada Badagu or Badaga	Kannada Kurumba Komarpant Halepaiki Nadavara-Kannada	Soliganudi Bangalore Kannada Holiya Urali Barkur Kannada	Tiptur Kannada Dharwad Kannada North Karnataka Kannada Nanjangud Kannada (Vakkaliga dialect) Mysore Kannada[1]

• Chola Naikar (Chola Naickans) tribes in Nilambur jungle in Kerala speak a dialect of Kannada.^[2]

• Kodava language also historically considered as dialect of Kannada language.

Kannada Dialect Survey

Kannada Dialect Survey by Deccan College (Pune).^[3]

• Koraga Language of Udupi region
• Havyaka Kannada of North Kanara region
• Halakki Kannada of Kumta, Uttara Kannada district
• Shivalli Kannada of Barkur, Dakshina Kannada district
• Brahmin and Non-Brahmin Kannada of Gulbarga region
• Non-Brahmin Kannada of Bijapur region
• Rabakavi Kannada of Rabakavi, Jamkhandi, Bijapur
• Kuruba Kannada of Madikeri
• Brahmin and Non-Brahmin Kannada of Nanjangud
• Tiptur Kannada of Hasan
• Kannada of Coimbatore
• Kannada of Madurai

Havyaka Kannada

Havyaka Kannada has North Havyaka and South Havyaka sub-dialects. Northern Havyaka Kannada is mainly spoken by the people of Uttara Kannada district and Southern Havyaka Kannada dialect is spoken by the people of Dakshina Kannada district and Udupi district.

Badagu

Badagu is the dialect of Kannada spoken by the Badaga community in the Nilgiri region in Tamil Nadu. It has all the characteristics to become an independent language.

Kota-Kundapura Kannada

Kota-Kundapura is the dialect of Kannada which is spoken by the people living in the area which is formed by, in the west, Arabian Sea to Shankarnarayana, in the east, Siddapura, Brahmavara in the south and Shiroor in the north.^[4]

Holiya

Holiya, also called Holar, Hole, Holu, Golari-Kannada spoken in Maharashtra and Madya Pradesh.^[5]

Hybridized Kannada dialects

• Koli Language
• Halabi Language, the Halaba people of Central Provinces and Berar region speaks this dialect of Kannada.
• Siddi Language
• Hebbar Tamil with heavy influence of Kannada language
• Konkani has Kannada Influence, Kannada words in Konkani
• Kupwar Kannada
• Betta Kurumba language
• Irula (people of darkness) in Chingleput at the Nilgiri hills in Tamil Nadu, their language Irula, is related to Kannada and Tamil.^[6]
• Wayanad Uralikuruma Kannada dialect – Uralikuruma of Wayanad an artisan tribal group speek a dialect which is a combination of Kannada and Malayalam.^[7]
• Dakhni dialect includes Kannada also.
• Saurashtra language has Kannada words historically.
• Northern Malayalam dialect (North Kerala in Malabar) has more kannada words.
• Marathi language borrowed many Kannada words

Other dialects of Kannada

• Koraga language
• Lambadi language

History

Considering the historical aspects of Kannada Language, which played important role on the development of the dialects of Kannada.^[8]

• History of Kannada
• History of Badagu, Badagas of Nilgiri
• Linguistic history of India, History of Kannada
• Extinct Kannada literature
• Medieval Kannada literature
• Modern Kannada literature
• Western Ganga literature
• Rashtrakuta literature
• Jain Contribution to Kannada literature
• Kannada literature in the Western Chalukya Empire
• Seuna Yadavas of Devagiri Kannada History
• Vachana sahitya
• Literature in the Hoysala Empire
• Kannada literature in the Vijayanagara Empire
• Kannada literature in the Kingdom of Mysore
• Chronology of Karnataka literature
• Shilaharas of Southern Maharashtra (Kolhapur Branch) used Kannada as official language.
• Historically many of the places name in Maharashtra are Kannada
• Goykanadi

Epigraphist, Historical linguist, Historian – Kannada

Vaidehi (Kannada writer) Chandrashekhara Kambara Ferdinand Kittel G. S. Gai A. N. Narasimhia	Suryanath U Kamath Sangamesh Saundattimath Robert Caldwell Robert J. Zydenbos John Faithfull Fleet

For more information, see People associated with the study of Kannada inscriptions.

Kannada software

Baraha, a word processing application developed by Kannadiga Sheshadrivasu, now the software available for all Indian languages.

See also

Kannada dialects Kannada literature Kannada University Epigraphia Carnatica Tamil–Kannada languages Telugu-Kannada script Latin Kannada Dictionary	Halegannada R-colored vowel in Badaga Charition mime Bhattiprolu Script Shabdamanidarpana Kannada grammar Kannada prosody	List of diglossic regions – Kannada Latin Kannada Dictionary Kotas Language List of numbers in Dravidian languages Doddabetta Dravidian languages Mixed languages	Dialect or language

References

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4. ^ "A little-known ‘Kannada’ dialect on the wane". Chennai, India: B.A. Samvartha. 2009-05-20. http://www.hindu.com/2009/05/20/stories/2009052059070300.htm. Retrieved 2011-02-01. 
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8. ^ "DIALECTS OF KANNADA". http://www.classicalkannada.org/DataBase/KannwordHTMLS/CLASSICAL%20KANNADA%20LANGUAGE%20HTML/DIALECTS%20OF%20KANNADA%20HTML.htm. Retrieved 2011-02-01.