Narayana claims that many tribal languages which are now designated as Kannada dialects could be nearer to the earlier form of the language, with lesser influence from other languages. The scholar Iravatham Mahadevan indicated that Kannada was already a language of rich spoken tradition earlier than the 3rd century BC and based on the native Kannada words found in Prakrit inscriptions of that period, Kannada must have been spoken by a broad and stable population. Influences of other languages such as Prakrit can also be found in Kannada.
Kannada is influenced to a considerable degree by Sanskrit and Kannada also influenced Sanskrit. Steever, its history can be conventionally divided into three stages: Old Kannada ( Haḷegannaḍa) from 450–1200 AD, Middle Kannada ( Naḍugannaḍa) from 1200–1700 and Modern Kannada ( Hosagannaḍa) from 1700 to the present. Kannada is a Southern Dravidian language and according to scholar Sanford B. In July 2011, a center for the study of classical Kannada was established as part of the Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysore to facilitate research related to the language. īased on the recommendations of the Committee of Linguistic Experts, appointed by the ministry of culture, the government of India designated Kannada a classical language of India. Kannada literature has been presented with 8 Jnanapith awards, the most for any Dravidian language and the second highest for any Indian language.
Kannada has an unbroken literary history of over a thousand years. Kannada is attested epigraphically for about one and a half millennia and literary Old Kannada flourished in the 6th-century Ganga dynasty and during the 9th-century Rashtrakuta Dynasty. The Kannada language is written using the Kannada script, which evolved from the 5th-century Kadamba script. It is one of the scheduled languages of India and the official and administrative language of the state of Karnataka. Kannada was the court language of some of the most powerful dynasties of south and central India, namely the Kadambas, Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, Yadava Dynasty or Seunas, Western Ganga dynasty, Wodeyars of Mysore, Nayakas of Keladi Hoysalas and the Vijayanagara empire.
Kannada is also spoken as a second and third language by over 12.9 million non-native speakers in Karnataka, which adds up to 56.9 million speakers. The language had roughly 43 million native speakers by 2011. The language is also spoken by linguistic minorities in the states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Kerala and Goa and also by Kannadigas abroad. Kannada ( / ˈ k ɑː n ə d ə, ˈ k æ n-/ ಕನ್ನಡ, ) is a classical Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in the southwestern region of India.
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