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Kundagannada also called Kundapra/Kundapura Kannada or more commonly known as Kundapra bhasi is a dialect of Kannada language spoken by ethno-cultural Tuluvas residing in the Kundapura, Byndoor, Brahmavar and Hebri taluks of Udupi district.
The Konkani language spoken in the Indian state of Goa has loanwords from multiple languages, including Arabic, Portuguese, English and Kannada. This is a list of loanwords in the Konkani language . Portuguese words in Konkani
A Kannada–English dictionary consisting of more than 70,000 words was composed by Ferdinand Kittel. [135] G. Venkatasubbaiah edited the first modern Kannada–Kannada dictionary, a 9,000-page, 8-volume series published by the Kannada Sahitya Parishat.
When used as a dictionary to translate single words, Google Translate is highly inaccurate because it must guess between polysemic words. Among the top 100 words in the English language, which make up more than 50% of all written English, the average word has more than 15 senses , [ 134 ] which makes the odds against a correct translation about ...
Candy, crystallized sugar or confection made from sugar; via Persian qand, which is probably from a Dravidian language, ultimately stemming from the Sanskrit root word 'Khanda' meaning 'pieces of something'. [4] Coir, cord/rope, fibre from husk of coconut; from Malayalam kayar (കയർ) [5] or Tamil kayiru (கயிறு). [6]
South Dravidian (also called "South Dravidian I") is one of the four major branches of the Dravidian languages family. It includes the literary languages Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Tulu, as well as several non-literary languages such as Badaga, Irula, Kota, Kurumba, Toda and Kodava.
The Kannada Wikipedia (Kannada: ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ) is the Kannada-language edition of Wikipedia. Started in June 2003, it is moderately active and as of December 2024, it has 33,191 articles with 272 active users. [1] [2] It is the twelfth-most popular Wikipedia in the Indian subcontinent. [3]
Ganjam Venkatasubbiah [2] (23 August 1913 – 19 April 2021), also known as G. V., was a Kannada writer, grammarian, editor, lexicographer, and critic who compiled over eight dictionaries, authored four seminal works on dictionary science in Kannada, edited over sixty books, and published several papers.