Kannada has an unbroken literary history of over a thousand years. ![]() Kannada is attested epigraphically for about one and a half millennia and literary Old Kannada flourished in the 6th-century Ganga dynasty and during the 9th-century Rashtrakuta Dynasty. The Kannada language is written using the Kannada script, which evolved from the 5th-century Kadamba script. ![]() The official and administrative language of the state of Karnataka, it also has scheduled status in India and has been included among the country's designated classical languages. Kannada was the court language of a number of dynasties of south and central India, namely the Kadambas, Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, Yadava Dynasty or Seunas, Western Ganga dynasty, Wodeyars of Mysore, Nayakas of Keladi Hoysalas and the Vijayanagara empire. ![]() It has around 47 million native speakers, and was additionally a second or third language for around 13 million non-native speakers in Karnataka. Kannada ( / ˈ k ɑː n ə d ə, ˈ k æ n-/ ಕನ್ನಡ, ), previously also known as Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states.
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