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The Kannadigas or Kannadigaru [a] (Kannada: ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರು [b]), often referred to as Kannada people, are a Dravidian ethno-linguistic group who natively speak Kannada South Indian state of Karnataka in India and its surrounding regions. [5] The Kannada language belongs to the Dravidian family of languages. [6]
The earliest examples of a full-length Kannada language stone inscription (śilāśāsana) containing Brahmi characters with characteristics attributed to those of proto-Kannada in Haḷe Kannaḍa (lit Old Kannada) script can be found in the Halmidi inscription, usually dated c. 450 AD, indicating that Kannada had become an administrative ...
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Girish Karnad, for his monumental contributions to Kannada literature and for contributions to Kannada theatre (Yayati), in 1998; Chandrashekhara Kambara, for his monumental contributions to Kannada literature, in 2010
[1] [2] Before the rise of the Kadambas, the centres of power ruling the land were outside the Karnataka region; thus the Kadambas' ascent to power as an independent geo-political entity, with Kannada, the language of the soil as a major regional language, is a landmark event in the history of modern Karnataka with Mayuravarman as an important ...
Kanaka Dasa was born into a Kannada kuruba family in Baada village, near Bankapura in Karnataka, and was a warrior at the Bankapura fort.He was taught by Srinivasacharya. As a child, he became an expert in "tarka", "vyakarana", and "mimamsa".
Bangalore Kannada is a vernacular dialect of the Indian language, Kannada, which serves as the official language of the state of Karnataka, as the native language by the majority people of Karnataka classical languages of India. This dialect is primarily spoken by youth and in informal discourse between locals.
Shivaram Karanth was born on 10 October 1902, [7] in Kota near Kundapura in the Udupi district of Karnataka to a Kannada-speaking Smartha Brahmin family. [citation needed] The fifth child of his parents Shesha Karantha and Lakshmamma, he completed his primary education in Kundapura and Bangalore.