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
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Mangaluru
Mangaluru (), formerly called Mangalore ( ), is a major industrial port city in the Indian state of Karnataka and on the west coast of India. It is located between the Laccadive Sea and the Western Ghats about west of Bengaluru, the stat ...
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Halakki Achchagannada
:* Barkur
:*
Havyaka
Havyaka Brahmin, originally called Havika Brahmana, is a Hindu Brahmin community native to the districts of Shivamogga, Uttara Kannada, Dakshina Kannada, Kodagu / Coorg, coastal Karnataka and the Kasaragod district of Kerala. Havyakas fall un ...
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Kundagannada
:* Sirsi Kannada
:* Malenadu
:*
Nador Kannada
;Northern
:* Vijayapura
:* Kalaburagi
:* Dharwad
:* Belagavi
;South-Western
:*
Arebhashe
Arebhashe (, ''Arebhāṣe''), or Aregannada or Gowda Kannada, is a dialect of Kannada mainly by Gowda communities in the regions of Madikeri, Somwarpet, and Kushalnagar taluks of Kodagu district, Coorg, Sullia and Puttur taluks of Dakshi ...
:* Tiptur
:* Rabakavi
:*
Nanjangudu Kannada
;Southern
:* Aruvu
:*
Bengaluru Kannada
:* Chamarajanagar
:* Mandya
:*
Banakal Kannada
Kannada languages
Badaga is a 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
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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
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H. Tipperudraswamy
See also
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Dialect or language
References
{{Kannada language
Kannada language
Languages of Karnataka
Dravidian languages