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Kannada: (Language. Grammar. Prosody. Old ... The Kodava tribe also forms more than 60 percent of the Kodava-speaking population. [2 ... (the Western sign of Leo ...
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]
This was prompted by a controversial directive passed by the Bengaluru civic body (BBMP), which mandated that at least 60% of the text on signboards in commercial establishments must be in Kannada. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The group argued that non-Kannada signage in public spaces was a threat to the language’s dominance and called for stronger ...
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The Kannada people number roughly 50 million, making it the fifteenth-most spoken language in the world. [17] It is one of the official languages of India and the official and administrative language of the state of Karnataka. [18] Kannada people constitute a small portion of the population of the district of Kasargod in North Kerala.
At the time of the 2011 Census of India, the total population in Karnataka was 6.25 crores (an amount equating to 10 million), with 50.9% being males and 49.1% females. . There was a decadal population increase of 17.3% between 1991 and
The Malayalam spoken by people of Lakshadweep has many Kannada words. [24] In the United States, there were 35,900 speakers in 2006–2008, [25] a number that had risen to 48,600 by the time of the 2015 census.
As of 2001 census, Tamil is spoken as the first language by 88.59% of the population followed by Telugu by 5.65 percent, Kannada by 2.68 percent, Urdu by 1.51 per cent, Hindi by 0.64 percent, Malayalam by 0.89 percent, Marathi by 0.1 percent and Saurashtra by 0.1 percent. [1] [2]