These scripts developed into the Old Kannada script, which by about 1500 had morphed into the Kannada and Telugu scripts. The Kannada alphabet (ಕನ್ನಡ ಲಿಪಿ) developed from the Kadamba and Cālukya scripts, descendents of Brahmi, which were used between the 5th and 7th centuries AD. Poetry in Kannada started to appear in 700 AD, and literary works from 850 AD.įrom the 14th century Kannada was sometimes written with the Tigalari alphabet, which developed in the 12th century in Karnataka. The earliest known texts in Old Kannada were written in the Brahmi script and are dated at 450 AD. Kannada first appeared in writing as words in Tamil inscriptions dating from the 3rd-1st centuries BC. It is also known as Banglori, Canarese, Havyaka or Kanarese. Kannada is the official and administrative language of Karnataka, and was officially designated a classical language of India in 2011. In 2011 there were about 56.4 million speakers of Kannada, including 43 million native speakers. There are also Kannada speakers in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Goa and Kerala, and in the USA, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Kannada is a Southern Dravidian language spoken mainly in the state of Karnataka in the southwest of India.
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