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Karnataka, with a total population of 61,100,000, is one of the major states in South India. Kannada is the official state language, [ 1 ] while other linguistic minorities in the state include Kodava , Konkani , Tulu and Urdu . [ 2 ]
Kannada is the official language of the state of Karnataka, as the native language of 66.46% of its population as of 2011 and is one of the classical languages of India. Urdu is the second largest language, spoken by 10.83% of the population, and is the language of Muslims outside the coastal region.
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The following table contains the Indian states and union territories along with the most spoken scheduled languages used in the region. [1] These are based on the 2011 census of India figures except Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, whose statistics are based on the 2001 census of the then unified Andhra Pradesh.
It has around 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a second or third language for around 15 million non-native speakers in Karnataka. [1] The official and administrative language of the state of Karnataka, [7] it also has scheduled status in India and has been included among the country's designated classical languages. [8] [9]
Karnataka is a state in the southern part of India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act.Karnataka is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, Goa to the north-west, Maharashtra to the north, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to the east, Tamil Nadu to the south-east, and Kerala to the south-west.
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 is a Dravidian language which branched off from Kannada-Tamil sub group around 500 B.C.E according to the Dravidian scholar Zvelebil. [189] It is the official language of Karnataka. According to the Dravidian scholars Steever and Krishnamurthy, the study of Kannada language is usually divided into three linguistic phases: Old (450 ...