Kannada dialects

Kannada
Kannada–Badaga
Geographic distribution:	South India
Linguistic classification:	Dravidian Southern Dravidian Tamil–Kannada Kannada
Subdivisions:	Kannada Holiya Badaga Urali
Glottolog:	bada1263[1]

Kannada dialects, in the broad sense incorporating the Kannada–Badaga languages, are spoken in and around Karnataka.

Kannada dialects and languages

There are about 20 dialects of Kannada, including Kundagannada, Havigannada, and Are Bhashe.

Kannada proper

Dialects of Kannada proper fall into four groups:^[2]

Coastal dialects 

Mangalore Kannada, Halakki, Barkur, Havyaka, Kundagannada, Sirsi Kannada, Ankola Kannada, {see also Goan Komarpant}

Northern Dialects

Dharwad Kannada, Sirsi Kannada, Gulbarga Kannada, Bagalkot Kannada

South-eastern

Are Bhashe or Gowda Kannada, Tiptur, Rabakavi, Najangud

South Karnataka

Aruvu, Bangalore Kannada, Soliga, Kannada Kurumba, Gowdra Bhashe

Badagu

Badagu is the Kannada-related language spoken by the Badaga community in the Nilgiri region in Tamil Nadu and it is considered as an independent Dravidian language.

See also : R-colored vowel in Badaga

Holiya

Holiya, also called Holar, Hole, Holu, Golari-Kannada, is the Kannada-related language spoken by a small section of people (500) in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.^[3]

Urali

Urali is also close to Kannada.

Study of Kannada languages and dialects

• Sangamesh Saundattimath
• List of people associated with the study of Kannada inscriptions
• Shamba Joshi
• Patil Puttappa

See also

• Diglossic regions - Kannada
• Dialect or language

References

1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Badaga–Kannada". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
2. Michail Andronov, 2003. A comparative grammar of the Dravidian languages
3. "LANGUAGES OF India , Minor and Tribl languages". Retrieved 2011-02-22.