Kannada dialects
Kannada dialects, in the broad sense incorporating the Kannada–Badaga languages, are spoken in and around Karnataka. Apart from literary Kannada, used in TV, news and literature, there are many spoken dialects.
| Kannada | |
|---|---|
| Kannada–Badaga | |
| Geographic distribution | South India |
| Linguistic classification | Dravidian
|
| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | bada1263[1] |
Kannada dialects
Dialects of Kannada proper fall into four groups:[2]
- Coastal dialects
- Mangalore Kannada, Halakki, Barkur, Havyaka, Kundagannada, Sirsi Kannada, Ankola Kannada, Komarpant, Malenadu Kannada.
- Northern
- Dharwad Kannada, Gulbarga Kannada, Vijayapura Kannada
- South-western
- Arebhashe, Tiptur Kannada, Rabakavi, Nanjangudu Kannada
- South Karnataka
- Aruvu, Bangalore Kannada, Chamarajanagar Kannada, Mandya kannada, Banakal
Kannada languages
Badagu is the Kannada-related language spoken by the Badaga community in the Nilgiri region in Tamil Nadu.[3]
Scholars of Kannada languages
- Aluru Venkata Rao
- Shamba Joshi
- D. L. Narasimhachar
- M. Chidananda Murthy
- T. V. Venkatachala Shastri
- M. M. Kalburgi
- Hampa Nagarajaiah
- Kamala Hampana
- D. N. Shankar Bhat
- A. K. Ramanujan
- H. Tipperudraswamy
- Sha. Shettar
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References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Badaga–Kannada". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Michail Andronov, 2003. A comparative grammar of the Dravidian languages
- http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language_MTs.html
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