Sirsi Kannada

Sirsi Kannada is a dialect of Kannada spoken in Sirsi taluk and Siddapur taluk of Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka. It is also referred as the "Coastal/Malenadu dialect". The other regional varieties of Kannada are Bangalore / Mysore Kannada, Mangalore Kannada and Dharwar Kannada (Northern dialect).

Some words specific to Sirsi Kannada are:

Verbs

English Kannada Sirsi Kannada
will go Hoguttene Hogte
will come Baruttene Barthe

Interrogative

English Kannada Sirsi Kannada
Why yaake Entakke
How hege Henge
What enu Entadu/enta

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