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Jun 4, 2023 · Before Kittel’s dictionary, the Kannada dictionaries that had been published were all either unsuitable, incomplete, mistake-ridden, abbreviated, or unscientific. This meant Kannada was in need of a dictionary that was faultless, precise, and scientific in order to felicitously reflect the language.
Mar 20, 2017 · Writers and researchers had long been feeling the need for an authoritative and comprehensive Kannada-Kannada dictionary when the matter came up for discussion in December 1941 at the...
A treatise which defines the meanings of linguistic units such as a word, a suffix, a prefix, a phrase, an idiom etc of a language can be called a dictionary. The history of dictionaries n Kannada begins from tenth century AD.
Kannada language, member of the Dravidian language family and the official language of the state of Karnataka in southern India. Kannada is also spoken in the states that border Karnataka. Early 21st-century census data indicated that some 38 million individuals spoke Kannada as their first.
- Bhadriraju Krishnamurti
Kannada has been accorded the status of a classical language by the Government of India, because of its antiquity and richness of linguistic and literary credentials. There are at least about twenty dialects in Kannada and Kannada language is vividly spoken in different ways in different parts of Karnataka.
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Nov 8, 2023 · This makes Kannada the only language in India to have a dictionary written by a foreigner. An ancient Greek play used Kannada phrases Kannada is also spoken as a second and third language by over 12.9 million non-native speakers in Karnataka, which adds up to 56.9 million speakers.
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Apr 26, 2017 · In 1943, a professor of Kannada spoke at a conference and said that a special monolingual dictionary, on the basis of the OED, must be prepared. But there was no linguistic survey in Kannada.
