Kannada dialects

Kannada
Kannada–Badaga
Geographic
distribution		 South India
Linguistic classification

Dravidian

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 four groups:[2]

Coastal dialects 
Mangalore Kannada, Halakki, Barkur, Havyaka, Kundagannada, Sirsi Kannada, Ankola Kannada, {see also Goan Komarpant}Malenadu Kannada.
Northern Dialects
Dharwad Kannada, Gulbarga Kannada, Vijayapura Kannada
South-eastern
Are Bhashe or Gowda Kannada, Tiptur, Rabakavi, Nanjangudu
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

Urali

Urali is also close to Kannada.

Study of Kannada languages and dialects

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Badaga–Kannada". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ Michail Andronov, 2003. A comparative grammar of the Dravidian languages
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