- Kannada is also spoken in the states that border Karnataka. Early 21st-century census data indicated that some 38 million individuals spoke Kannada as their first.
- It is also famously known as the Halmidi inscription, which is the oldest known Kannada language inscription, which dates back to the late 5th and early 6th century.
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- It is considered as one of the four main Dravidian languages, but modern Kannada has substantial influences from Sanskrit and other Indian languages.
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- The earliest inscriptional records in Kannada are from the 6th century. Kannada script which is closely similar to Telugu script in origin.
- Kannada is a Dravidian language, which means that it belongs to the same family as the other South Indian languages Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Tulu.
- Kannada has 5 short and 5 long independent vowels along with few other special one - making it all together 14 independent vowels.
- For instance, a word called ‘isila’ was found on an Ashokan inscription, which was later confirmed to be a word from the Kannada language.