Influences of other languages such as Prakrit and Pali can also be found in the Kannada language.
Kannada is influenced to an appreciable extent by Sanskrit. Steever, its history can be conventionally divided into three periods: Old Kannada ( Halegannada) from 450–1200 CE, Middle Kannada ( Nadugannada) from 1200–1700, and Modern Kannada from 1700 to the present. Kannada is a Southern Dravidian language, and according to Dravidian 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 at 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 is also spoken as a second and third language by over 12.9 million non-Kannada speakers living in Karnataka, which adds up to 56.6 million speakers. The language has roughly 43.7 million native speakers, who are called Kannadigas. It is spoken predominantly by Kannada people in India, mainly in the state of Karnataka, and by significant linguistic minorities in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Kerala and abroad. Kannada ( / ˈ k ɑː n ə d ə, ˈ k æ n-/ Kannada: ಕನ್ನಡ ) is a Dravidian language also known as Kannadigas.
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