Kannada dialects explained

Kannada–Badaga
Also Known As:	Kannadoid, Kannada
Region:	South India
Familycolor:	Dravidian
Fam2:	Southern
Fam3:	Southern I
Fam4:	Tamil–Kannada
Child1:	Kannada
Child2:	Holiya
Child3:	Badaga
Child4:	Sholaga
Child5:	Alu Kurumba
Child6:	Betta Kurumba
Child7:	Jenu Kurumba
Child8:	Maundadan Chetti
Glotto:	bada1263
Glottorefname:	Badaga–Kannada

Kannada dialects, in the broad sense incorporating the Kannada–Badaga languages, are spoken in and around Karnataka. Apart from literary Kannada, used in television, news and literature, there are many spoken dialects.

Kannada dialects

Dialects of Kannada language fall into four groups:^[1]

Coastal

• Mangaluru

• Halakki Achchagannada

• Barkur

• Havyaka

• Kundagannada

• Sirsi Kannada

• Malenadu

• Nador Kannada

Northern

• Vijayapura

• Kalaburagi

• Dharwad

• Belagavi

South-Western

• Arebhashe

• Tiptur

• Rabakavi

• Nanjangudu Kannada

Southern

• Aruvu

• Bengaluru Kannada

• Chamarajanagar

• Mandya

• Banakal Kannada

Kannada languages

Kannada is the Badaga-related language spoken by the Badaga community in the Nilgiri region in Tamil Nadu.^[2]

Betta Kurumba, Holiya and Sholaga are also close to Kannada.

Scholars of Kannada languages

• Aluru Venkata Rao
• Shamba Joshi
• Kuvempu.K.V Puttappa
• 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

See also

• Dialect or language

Notes and References

1. Michail Andronov, 2003. A comparative grammar of the Dravidian languages
2. Web site: Census of India Website : Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India.