Kannada is a prominent Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Karnataka.
Kannada
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Classification
Dravidian
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Speakers
52.2 million
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Script
Roman
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Text direction
Left-to-right
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Official language
India
Kannada
Kannada is a member of the Dravidian language group spoken mostly on the southern and south-eastern parts of India, whereas the majority languages in northern and north-eastern India are part of the Indo-European language group.
Kannada is spoken mainly in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Native speakers of Kannada are known as Kannadigas or Kannadigarus.
Kannada is one of the 20 official languages of India and in 2008 it was designated a Classical Language in India alongside Sanskrit, Odia, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu.
Instead of an alphabet, Kannada uses an abugida. In an abugida vowels are joined to consonants (for example, in English: pa, pi, pu, etc). When a vowel follows a consonant, it is written with a diacritic as opposed to having a separate letter for it.
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Interesting fact
The Kannada language of southern India is the 32nd most widely-spoken language in the world, while the earliest examples of written Kannada date from 230 BCE.
