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What is your opinion about kannada?

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What is your opinion about kannada?

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First of all I am happy that you asked this question.

Kannada is my mother tongue. I love Kannada. It is one of the beautiful and oldest languages in India. It has its own script. It is about 2300years old.
But I am sad that Kannada is becoming the minority in its own land. people in Bangalore prefer to speak in English and other lang. Radio city and radio mirchi do not play Kannada songs, we are neglected in our own land. I get angry when I hear Tamil adds and only Hindi songs in FM stations. Radio mirchi is encouraging the Kannada + English = kanglish lang. It is irritating when radio mirchi rj says 鈥淪MS madi prize win madi". Where is the grammar in this? It鈥檚 totally meaning less.
Even our Kannadigas are less proud of their language and feel shame to speak in Kannada in public places and shopping malls. I always speak in Kannada where ever I go unless the person doesn't know Kannada.
I can't tolerate when someone makes racist comment on Kannada.
Few days back I asked a question in Kannada in Y!A (with Kannada script), but yahoo removed that question. I have sent a mail to yahoo, asking is it wrong to ask question in our language, but I have not yet received any reply from them.

I am proud of my language and I can do anything for it.

Jai kannada.

About Kannda:

The first record on Kannada language is traced to Emperor Ashoka's Brahmagiri edict dated 230 BC. The first example of full length Kannada language stone inscription (shilashaasana) in Hale Kannada (Old-Kannada) script can be found in the Halmidi inscription, dated c. 450 CE. Prior to this, there is an abundance of inscriptions containing Kannada words, phrases and sentences. The 543 CE. Badami fort shilashaasana of Pulakesi I is an example of Sanskrit inscription in Hale Kannada script. An example of early Sanskrit copper plate inscription (tamarashaasana) in Old Kannada script is the Western Ganga dynasty Penugonda inscription date early 6th c. CE.(Govt. Museum, Chennai). The earliest full length Kannada tamarashaasana in Old Kannada script (mid 8th c. CE) belongs to Alupa ruler Aluvarasa II from Belmannu, South Kanara district. The oldest well-preserved palm leaf manuscript is in old Kannada and is that of Dhavala, dated to around 9th century, preserved in the Jain Bhandar, Mudbidri, Dakshina Kannada district. The manuscript contains 1478 leaves written in ink.

Kannada language inscriptions are the highest of any language in India, with more than 40,000. These inscriptions were not only discovered in Karnataka but also quite commonly in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. Some inscriptions were also found in Madhya Pradesh (Jabalpur) and Uttar Pradesh. As an example, the inscription at Jura (Madhya Pradesh) , belonging to the reign of Rashtrakuta Krishna III, is regarded as an epigraphical landmark of classical Kannada literary composition, with charming poetic diction in polished Kannada metre. This indicates the spread of the language over the ages, especially during the rule of large Kannada empires.

Kannada has had significant influence on other Indian languages and overseas cultures. Well known Tamil scholar Iravatham Mahadevan in his book Early Tamil Epigraphy: From Earliest times to Sixth century, 2003 CE. brings to light the influence of old Kannada on Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions from the 2nd. c. BCE - 4th. c. CE. He made this observations based on lexical and grammatical usages.

Charition mime, a Greek drama discovered at Oxyrhynchus and dated to 2nd century CE. or earlier contains scenes where Indian characters in the skit speak dialogue in Kannada. This was deciphered by Dr. E. Hultzsch, a noted German indologist.

Prior to and during the early Christian era, Kannada country seems to have been in close trade ties with the Greek and Roman empires of the west. Greek dramatists of 4th century BC. seem to have been familiar with Kannada language. This is evident in their usage of Kannada words and phrases in their dramas and skits. (Sri K. Appadurai, 1997, INTAMM).

In coinage, recent discovery of copper coin dated back to 5th century CE. in Banavasi with the inscription Srimanaragi in Kannada script proves that Kannada had become official by the time of the Kadambas of Banavasi. Coinage with Kannada legends are common from the time of Chalukyas.

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I saw your profile. Happy to find out that you are kannada lover too. can you send me your kannada poems?
Why dont you puplish your poems in bloggers.com
and dont forget to visit planekannada.com, where you can creat your own blogs and store poems and stories so that all kannadigas can read them.

Others
It starts wit a "k"!!!!! har har
First off, how about you learn how to spell it. It is Canada, not "kannada"...
Seems interesting. Wife speaks Tamil and a little telegu. Haven't met very many karnatakans.
Well first of all you can't spell.But I think it's too cold up there but i have visited the city of vancouver and it was awsome.
Kannada is one of the major Dravidian languages of southern India and one of the oldest languages in India. The script is confusin though.
beautiful calligraphy in the writing of it