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Countries

Countries
India, Karnataka, India

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
Karnataka, India

Second Language
Goa

Speaking Continents
Asia

Minority Language
Andra Pradesh, Goa, kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana

Regulated By
Various academies and the Government of Karnataka

Interesting Facts
  • Kannada is the third oldest language after Sanskrit and Tamil of India
  • Kannada language is only Indian language which got maximum i.e. 8 GyanaPeetha Awards.

Similar To
Telugu

Derived From
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Kannada-Alphabets.jpg#200

Alphabets
49 29

Phonology

How Many Vowels
14 11

How Many Consonants
35 25

Scripts
Kannada Script

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
5 4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

Greetings

Hello
ಹಲೋ (Halō)

Thank You
ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು (Dhan'yavādagaḷu)

How Are You?
ನೀವು ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀರಿ? (Nīvu hēgiddīri?)

Good Night
ಶುಭ ರಾತ್ರಿ (Śubha rātri)

Good Evening
ಶುಭ ಸಂಜೆ (Śubha san̄je)

Good Afternoon
ಉತ್ತಮ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ (Uttama madhyāhna)

Good Morning
ಶುಭೋದಯ (Śubhōdaya)

Please
ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು (Dayaviṭṭu)

Sorry
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (Kṣamisi)

Bye
ಬೈ (Bai)

I Love You
ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ (Nānu ninna prītisuttēne)

Excuse Me
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (kshamisi)

Dialects

Dialect 1
Badaga

Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu, The Nilgiris

How Many People Speak
540,000.00 66

Dialect 2
Urali

Where They Speak
kerala

How Many People Speak
6,440.00 89

Dialect 3
Kurumba

Where They Speak
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu

How Many People Speak
220,000.00 61

Total No. Of Dialects
20 18

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
49.00 million 29

Speaking Population
0.58 % 28

Native Speakers
38.00 million 26

Second Language Speakers
11.00 million 39

Native Name
ಕನ್ನಡ (kannaḍa)

Alternative Names
Banglori, Canarese, Havyaka, Kanarese, Madrassi

French Name
kannada

German Name
Kannada

Pronunciation
[ˈkʌnnəɖɑː]

Ethnicity
Kannadiga

History

Origin
c. 450

Language Family
Dravidian Family

Subgroup
-

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
Old Kannada, Kannada

Standard Forms
Modern Kannada

Language Position
31 29

Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
kn

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
kan

ISO 639 2/B
kan

ISO 639 3
kan

ISO 639 6
kan

Glottocode
nucl1305

Linguasphere
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
-

Language Morphological Typology
-

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Know Alphabets in Kannada

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Kannada Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Kannada Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Kannada. Kannada phonology gives Kannada vowels and Kannada consonants. There are 14 vowels and 35 consonants in Kannada language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Kannada is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Kannada language is given in detail in this section.

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All Kannada countries

Want to explore all Kannada countries? About Kannada language serves you with all Kannada Speaking Countries. Countries that use Kannada as official language are called as Kannada countries.

  • Countries that use Kannada as their National Language are: Karnataka, India.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Kannada as second language are: Goa.

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Learn Kannada greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Kannada Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Kannada language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Kannada language.Learn Kannada greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: ಹಲೋ (Halō)
  • Thank you: ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು (Dhan'yavādagaḷu)
  • Good Morning: ಶುಭೋದಯ (Śubhōdaya)
  • Good Evening: ಶುಭ ಸಂಜೆ (Śubha san̄je)
  • Good Afternoon: ಉತ್ತಮ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ (Uttama madhyāhna)

All Kannada Language Codes

Get to know all Kannada language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Kannada Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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