Kannada dialects

Kannada
Kannada–Badaga
Geographic
distribution:		 South India
Linguistic classification:

Dravidian

  • Southern Dravidian
    • Tamil–Kannada
      • Kannada
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: bada1263[1]

Kannada dialects, in the broad sense incorporating the Kannada–Badaga languages, are spoken in and around Karnataka.

Kannada dialects and languages

There are about 20 dialects of Kannada, including Kundagannada, Havigannada, and Are Bhashe.

Kannada proper

Dialects of Kannada proper fall into three groups:[2]

Coastal dialects 
Mangalore Kannada, Halakki, Barkur, Havyaka, Kundagannada, Bellary,[3] Kumta {see also Goan Komarpant}
South-eastern
Are Bhashe or Gowda Kannada, Tiptur, Rabakavi, Najangud
South Karnataka
Aruvu, Bangalore Kannada, Soliga, Kannada Kurumba, Gowdra Bhashe

Badagu

Badagu is the Kannada-related language spoken by the Badaga community in the Nilgiri region in Tamil Nadu and it is considered as an independent Dravidian language.

See also : R-colored vowel in Badaga

Holiya

Holiya, also called Holar, Hole, Holu, Golari-Kannada, is the Kannada-related language spoken by a small section of people (500) in Maharashtra and Madya Pradesh.[4]

Urali

Urali is also close to Kannada.

Study of Kannada languages and dialects

See also

References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Badaga–Kannada". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. ↑ Michail Andronov, 2003. A comparative grammar of the Dravidian languages
  3. ↑ It is not clear if this is supposed to be the unclassified Bellary language.
  4. ↑ "LANGUAGES OF India , Minor and Tribl languages". Retrieved 2011-02-22.