Kannada is spoken by about 50 million people, mainly in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, where it is an official language. As part of the Dravidian language family, it uses the Kannada script, a distinctive abugida. Its agglutinative grammar includes eight cases and a subject-object-verb (SOV) word order. Kannada boasts a classical literature tradition, including poetry and prose dating back to the 9th century, alongside a vibrant modern literary and cinematic culture.
Estadísticas
Language Family: Dravidian
Writing System: Kannada
Writing System Type: Abugida
Writing Direction: Left to Right
Tones / Pitch Accent: None
Morphology: Agglutinative
Cases: 8
Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 3
Number of Verb Tenses: 3
Word Order: Subject-Object-Verb (SOV)
Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 10
Number of Consonants: 32
Áreas Donde Se Habla
India (3.6%) (51.4 mil)