Kannada is widely prevalent in Bangalore and the rest of the state of Karnataka.
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Bhat was a scholar-poet widely read in kannada, English and Sanskrit literature.
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Kannada is the language of Vachana sahitya, which is a literature of Lingayatism.
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Kannada also has several Hindi words chiefly relating to feudalism and militia.
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Kannada script has forty-nine characters in its alphasyllabary and is phonemic.
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G. H. Nayak was a professor of kannada at University of Mysore, Mansagangotri.
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Kannada, Telugu and Tamil were used in their respective regions of the empire.
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Kannada is the only Dravidian language to have lost its clusivity distinction.
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Kannada language has received the highest number of Jnanpith awards in India.
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A Dravidian language spoken in southern India
Kannada /u02C8ku0251u02D0nu0259du0259, u02C8ku00E6-/ (u0C95u0CA8u0CCDu0CA8u0CA1 kannau1E0Da, IPA:u00A0), also known as Canarese or Kanarese /ku00E6nu0259u02C8riu02D0z/, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Kannada people in South India, mainly in the state of Karnataka, and by linguistic minorities in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Kerala, and Goa...
The Kannada people, known as the Kannadigas and Kannadigaru, are the people who natively speak Kannada. Kannadigas are mainly found in the state of Karnataka in India and in the neighboring states of Kerala, Maharashtra particularly in Solapur, Goa, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Delhi states. The English plural is Kannadigas.