Kannada is  alanguage prevailing in

KArnataka,A south Indian state. It is the native language of this state. This state has about six crore population  and kannda is the state language in administration. about 80%people here know kannada and use it.People who speak this language , or live in Karnataka as permanent settlers are called Kannadigas. Many kannadigas have migrated to outside places like Mumbai where about 1million kannadigas live.

    Many kannadigas live in other counrtieslike-England, U.S.A., Australia.  and some other European countries. In Newyork alone, about 15,000 Kannada speaking people are living.

There are many kannadaspeakers'associations in America. The federation of their association is Called 'AKKA'which , in Kannada means-Elder sister.This association is convening annual conventions in different parts of America every year and  helping their mother state in different ways.

LANGUAGE STRUCTURE

  Kannada language has 50 alphabets.tHESE ALPHABETS EXPRESS ALMOST EVERYSOUND IN THE language.So, Kannada is a phonetic language, unlike Englih, which is a non-Phonetic language.Kannada  has its own script developed over centuries.

litereture

Kannada is recognised as 'Classical  language' recently, by the union Governamnet of india.That means, it has  a heritage of over 1500 years. Stone insriptions of 5th century A.D. are found in Kannada.While english litereture starts from 11th century( by Geoffery Chausser) Kannada literery history starts earlier to that and in more matured way.Pampa- was the first kannada poet according to available scripts. But, there is illustration of poets earlier to him. Their scripts have not yet been secured.

 Ranna, ponna  ,chavundaRaya, were the other f amous poets of 10^th century. In 11^th century many scolors wrote books on medicine, and such other useful sciences. Nagachandra was the other poet lived in that century. Jains began the  writing of  classical epics  in kannada, in 10^th century.

 In 12^th century, Kannada litereturwe took another form.Poetry with the ease of prose came in vogue. These are called ‘Vachanas’.Basavanna, Allamaprabhu. Akkamahadevi, etc were famous in this form. This vachana literature was the bye-product of social reform against untouchability etc .There are about 25,000 vachanas available as on now.

Kannada grammer, dictionaries etc, were also compiled during this period.

Presently…….

    Presently, Kannada literature is flourishing  at the peak. The prestigious ‘Jnanapeeta Award’ has been bagged 7 times by kannada authors. Kuvempu,D.R.Bendre, K.S.Narasimha Swamy  etc were the celebrated poets of recent years whose poems are being sung in  all parts where kannadigas live. Among contemporary scholors are Dr.Hampa Nagarajaiah, Dr.Kamala Hampana,Dr.M.M.kalburgi, Dr.M.Chidananda Murthy etc, have contributed much for the advancement of study of linguistics. Epigraphy, history, etc.

Websites

   Many website are there to inform you about kannada and day to-day affairs of Karnataka. Kannadigas living in other countries also have formed websites of their own and giving news in English to fecilitate other readers. One such important website is: www.mangalorean.com from Kannadigas living in Australia

 Other website related to Kannada and kanndigas are as follows:

    www.kannadaprabha.com

     This is the web version of a famous kannada daily-Kannada prabha.

 www.sudhaezine.com

      This is the e-version of famous kannada weekly magazine-Sudha

www.thatskannada.com

      This website is owned by kannada leading daily-Prajavani.This is being run for the past 10 years.

www.ourkarnataka.com

  This is another website related to kannada and Karnataka.

www.baraha.com

  This website founded by Mr.Sheshadri vasu. From here you can download kannada  script software.This also has kannada-English dictionary

www.sampada.net

    Here, kannada blogs are published

www.thatskannada.oneindia.in.mixed-bag/info/index.html.

    Here you can know about kannada literature, music, cooking, cinema,tourist places. Etc.

Not only these, there are many more kannada websites.

      Please have a look at them:and, understand, how much achievement is made in a language less known to you.