Languages

Kannada

Language

Citation Formats

General Reference

Language Atlas. "Kannada." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/kannada.

APA Style

Language Atlas. (n.d.). Kannada. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/kannada

BibTeX

@misc{languageatlas-kannada,
  author = {Language Atlas},
  title = {Kannada},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/kannada},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Kannada is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states.

Facts

ISO 639-3 Code

kan 1

Speaker Count

59,000,000 1

2011 census total, combining 44 million native speakers with 15 million second-language speakers.

Region

Karnataka; also North Tamil Nadu, South Maharashtra, West Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, North Kerala, and Goa 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Family

Dravidian

Source Wikipedia: Kannada

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Kannada

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Kannada ... is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states.

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