Kannada inscription dated 1654, at Yelandur with exquisite relief Kannada also has borrowed ( Tatsama) words such as dina (day), kopa (anger), surya (sun), mukha (face), nimiб№Јa (minute). Examples of naturalised Sanskrit words in Kannada are: varб№‡a (colour), paurб№‡imДЃ, and rДЃya from rДЃja (king). Some naturalised ( tadbhava) words of Prakrit origin in Kannada are: baб№‡б№‡a (colour) derived from vaб№‡б№‡a, hunnime (full moon) from puб№‡б№‡ivДЃ. Kannada phonetics, morphology, vocabulary, grammar and syntax show significant influence from these languages.

The vernacular Prakrit speaking people may have come into contact with Kannada speakers, thus influencing their language, even before Kannada was used for administrative or liturgical purposes. Literary Prakrit seems to have prevailed in Karnataka since ancient times. The sources of influence on literary Kannada grammar appear to be three-fold: PДЃб№‡ini's grammar, non-Paninian schools of Sanskrit grammar, particularly Katantra and Sakatayana schools, and Prakrit grammar. Narayana claims that many tribal languages which are now designated as Kannada dialects could be nearer to the earlier form of the language, with lesser influence from other languages. The scholar Iravatham Mahadevan indicated that Kannada was already a language of rich spoken tradition earlier than the 3rd century BC and based on the native Kannada words found in Prakrit inscriptions of that period, Kannada must have been spoken by a broad and stable population. Influences of other languages such as Prakrit and Pali can also be found in Kannada. Kannada is influenced to a considerable degree by Sanskrit. Steever, its history can be conventionally divided into three stages: Old Kannada ( Halegannada) from 450вЂ“1200 AD, Middle Kannada ( Nadugannada) from 1200вЂ“1700 and Modern Kannada from 1700 to the present. Kannada is a Southern Dravidian language and according to scholar Sanford B. In July 2011, a center for the study of classical Kannada was established as part of the Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysore to facilitate research related to the language. Д«ased on the recommendations of the Committee of Linguistic Experts, appointed by the ministry of culture, the government of India designated Kannada a classical language of India. Kannada literature has been presented with 8 Jnanapith awards, the most for any Dravidian language and the second highest for any Indian language. Kannada has an unbroken literary history of over a thousand years. Kannada is attested epigraphically for about one and a half millennia and literary Old Kannada flourished in the 6th-century Ganga dynasty and during the 9th-century Rashtrakuta Dynasty. The Kannada language is written using the Kannada script, which evolved from the 5th-century Kadamba script. It is one of the scheduled languages of India and the official and administrative language of the state of Karnataka. Kannada was the court language of some of the most powerful dynasties of south and central India, namely the Kadambas, Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, Hoysalas and the Vijayanagara empire. Kannada is also spoken as a second and third language by over 12.9 million non-native speakers in Karnataka, which adds up to 56.9 million speakers.

The language had roughly 43 million native speakers by 2011.

The language is also spoken by linguistic minorities in the states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Kerala and Goa and also by Kannadigas abroad.

Kannada ( / Л€ k Й‘Лђ n Й™ d Й™, Л€ k Г¦ n-/ аІ•аІЁаіЌаІЁаІЎ, less commonly known as Kanarese) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in the southwestern region of India.

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