Kannada dialects, in the broad sense incorporating the Kannada–Badaga languages, are spoken in and around Karnataka. Apart from literary Kannada, used in television, news and literature, there are many spoken dialects.
Kannada dialects
Dialects of Kannada language fall into four groups:
;Coastal:
Mangaluru
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:Halakki
:Barkur
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Havyaka
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Kundagannada
Kundagannada or Kundaapra Kannada or Kundapura Kannada is a dialect of Kannada spoken in Kundapura, Byndoor, Brahmavar,Hebri taluks of Udupi district
Udupi district (also Udipi or Odipu in Tulu language) is an administrative subdivision i ...
:Sirsi Kannada
:Malenadu
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Nadavar
;Northern:Vijayapura
:Kalaburagi
:Dharwad
:Belagavi
;South-Western:
Arebhashe
Arebhashe (, ''Arebhāṣe'') or Aregannada or Gowda Kannada is a dialect of Kannada mainly by Gowda and other communities in the region Madikeri, Somwarpet, and Virajpet taluks of Kodagu district, Sullia, taluks of Dakshina Kannada district; ...
:Tiptur
:Rabakavi
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Nanjangudu Kannada
;Southern:Aruvu
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Bengaluru
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:Chamarajanagar
:Mandya
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Banakal
Banakal is a Malnad town in Mudigere Taluk, Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka, India. This town is situated atop the Charmadi hills in the Western Ghats section. The Western Ghats is one amongst twenty-five identified hot spots for biodiv ...
Kannada languages
Badaga is the Kannada-related language spoken by the Badaga community in the
Nilgiri region in
Tamil Nadu
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Holiya and
Sholaga are also close to Kannada.
Scholars of Kannada languages
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Aluru Venkata Rao
Aluru Venkata Rao (also sometimes referred as Aluru Venkata Raya) (12 July 1880 – 25 February 1964) was an Indian historian, writer and journalist. He is revered as Karnataka Kulapurohita (''High priest of the Kannada family'') in the Karn ...
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Shamba Joshi
Shankara Baaladeekshita Joshi (1896– 28 Sep 1991), popularly referred to as Sham Ba Joshi, was an authority on the culture of Karnataka. Joshi was known for his unique and distinctive style of research. The range of his interests, study, re ...
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Kuvempu.K.V Puttappa
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D. L. Narasimhachar
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M. Chidananda Murthy
M. Chidananda Murthy (10 May 1931 – 11 January 2020) was a Kannada writer, researcher and historian. He was a well-known scholar in Karnataka specializing in the history of Kannada language and ancient Karnataka. He was also known for his cam ...
* T. V. Venkatachala Shastri
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M. M. Kalburgi
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Hampa Nagarajaiah
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Kamala Hampana
* D. N. Shankar Bhat
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A. K. Ramanujan
Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (16 March 1929 – 13 July 1993) was an Indian poet and scholar of Indian literature and Linguistics. Ramanujan was also a professor of Linguistics at University of Chicago.
Ramanujan was a poet, scholar, ...
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H. Tipperudraswamy
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Sha. Shettar
See also
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Diglossic regions - Kannada
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Dialect or language
References
{{Kannada language
Kannada language
Languages of Karnataka
Dravidian languages