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Kannada is one of the major Dravidian languages spoken in Southern India. It is natively spoken and has the largest number of speakers in the state of Karnataka. The native speakers of Kannada are referred to as Kannadigas. There are approximately 35 million Kannada speakers all over the world, this places it on the 27th position among the most widely spoken languages of the world. 

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• Kannada serves as one of the official Indian languages. The Indian state of Karnataka recognizes it as the official and sole administrative language.

• The Kannada script is used to write Kannada, as well as other languages which are native to Karnataka like Beary bashe, Kodava Takk, Konkani and Tulu.

• A few distinctions exist between the spoken and written forms of Kannada. While spoken Kannada is influenced by regional variations, written version is fairly constant across Karnataka. 

• Spoken Kannada has about 20 dialects. The most important ones among them are Kundagannada (spoken only in Kundapura), Nadavar-Kannada (spoken by the Nadavaru), Havigannada (spoken chiefly by Havyaka Brahmins), Are Bhashe (spoken primarily in Sullia region of Dakshina Kannada).

• Other dialects are Badaga, Chitradurga Kannada, Dharawad Kannada, Gulbarga Kannada, and Soliga all of which are molded by their cultural and regional background.

• Ethnologue has classified Kannada as a group of languages that comprise of Badaga, Holiya, Kannada and Urali.

• Kannada is written using 49 phonemic letters that are divided into 3 groups - Swaragalu which comprises of vowels and contains thirteen letters; Yogavaahakagalu which contains two letters that are neither vowel, nor consonant, and Vyanjanagalu compromising 34 consonants.

• The total number of written symbols exceeds 49 characters because the characters can be combined with each other to create compound characters. 

• The Kannada script is syllabic and has been developed from the Brahmi script. It is somewhat complicated due to the usage of various symbols and combinations of “half-letters". The script is perfectly phonetic, except for the sound associated with "half n", which turns into half m.

• The Kannada script is also used in writing other languages like Kodava Takk, Konkani, and Tulu.

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