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Kannada

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Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Kannada people in India, mainly in the state of Karnataka, and by significant linguistic minorities in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Kerala, Goa and abroad. [1]

190 relations: Affricate consonant, Akka Mahadevi, Allama Prabhu, Alupa dynasty, Alveolar consonant, Amoghavarsha, Andhra Pradesh, Anusvara, Approximant consonant, Arebhashe dialect, Back vowel, Badaga language, Banavasi, Bangalore Kannada, Basava, Bhakti, Bible translations into Kannada, Brahmagiri archaeological site, Brahmi script, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Central vowel, Chalukya dynasty, Charition mime, Chikmagalur, Chitradurga, Christian Gottlob Barth, Chutu dynasty, Close vowel, Culture minister, D. R. Bendre, Dakshina Kannada, Dental consonant, Dravidian languages, Durvinita, Edicts of Ashoka, Epigraphy, Ethnologue, Extant literature, Ferdinand Kittel, Fricative consonant, Front vowel, G. Venkatasubbiah, Ganges, Goa, Godavari River, Gokak agitation, Government of India, Government of Karnataka, Grammatical gender, Halakki Vokkaliga, ..., Halmidi inscription, Hangal, Haridasa, Harihara (poet), Havigannada dialect, Havyaka Brahmin, Hermann Mögling, Hindi, Hinduism, Holiya language, Hoysala Empire, India, Inflection, Iravatham Mahadevan, Irula language, Jagannatha Dasa, Jainism, Janna, Jnanpith Award, John Bunyan, John Hands, Kadamba alphabet, Kadamba dynasty, Kanaka Dasa, Kanhangad, Kannada, Kannada alphabet, Kannada Braille, Kannada cinema, Kannada dialects, Kannada flag, Kannada grammar, Kannada in computing, Kannada literature, Kannada people, Kannada Sahitya Parishat, Kappe Arabhatta, Karnataka, Karwar, Karnataka, Kaveri, Kavirajamarga, Kerala, Kesiraja, Kingdom of Mysore, Kodava language, Komarpant, Kota language (India), Kumara Vyasa, Kundagannada dialect, Kundapur, Kurumba language, Kuvempu, Labial consonant, Labiodental consonant, Lakshadweep, Languages of India, Languages with official status in India, List of Kannada-language radio stations, List of Karnataka literature, List of languages by number of native speakers in India, M. Govinda Pai, Madikeri, Mahabharata, Maharashtra, Malaprabha River, Mangalore, Marathi language, Mary Martha Sherwood, Mid vowel, Movable type, Mysore, Nadavara, Nagavarma II, Narahari Tirtha, Nasal consonant, Nayakas of Keladi, Old Kannada, Open vowel, Palatal consonant, Pali, Pāṇini, Pharyngeal consonant, Phoneme, Pliny the Elder, Postalveolar consonant, Prakrit, Ptolemy, Pulakeshin I, Pulakeshin II, Purandara Dasa, Raghavanka, Rashtrakuta dynasty, Rashtrakuta literature, Retroflex consonant, Rishabhanatha, Sahitya Akademi, Sanskrit, Saraswati, Satavahana dynasty, Serampore, Shabdamanidarpana, Sheldon Pollock, Shiva, Shivakotiacharya, Shivamara II, Sholaga language, Shravanabelagola, Siribhoovalaya, Sripadaraja, Stop consonant, Subject–object–verb, Sullia, Syllable, Tadbhava, Tamil Nadu, Tamil–Kannada languages, Tatsama, Telangana, The Pilgrim's Progress, The Times of India, Timeline of Karnataka, Toda language, Trill consonant, Tulu language, Urali language, Uttara Kannada, Vachana sahitya, Vadiraja Tirtha, Vaishnavism, Varada, Velar consonant, Vijaya Dasa, Vijayanagara Empire, Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, Visarga, Vyasatirtha, Western Chalukya Empire, Western Ganga dynasty, William Carey (missionary), Yakshagana. Expand index (140 more) »

Affricate consonant

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

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Akka Mahadevi

Akka Mahadevi (ಅಕ್ಕ ಮಹಾದೇವಿ) (c.1130-1160) was one of the early female poets of the Kannada language and a prominent personality in the Lingayat religion of the 12th century.

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Allama Prabhu

Allama Prabhu (ಅಲ್ಲಮ ಪ್ರಭು) was a 12th-century mystic-saint and Vachana poet (called Vachanakara) of the Kannada language, propagating the unitary consciousness of Self and Shiva.

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Alupa dynasty

The Alupa also known as Alva (circa 2nd century C.E to 15th century C.E) is the name of an ancient ruling dynasty of India.

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Alveolar consonant

Alveolar consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the superior teeth.

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Amoghavarsha

Amoghavarsha I (also known as Amoghavarsha Nrupathunga I) (800–878 CE) was a Rashtrakuta emperor, the greatest ruler of the Rashtrakuta dynasty, and one of the great emperors of India.

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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh is one of the 29 states of India.

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Anusvara

Anusvara (Sanskrit: अनुस्वारः) is the diacritic used to mark a type of nasal sound used in a number of Indic scripts.

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Approximant consonant

Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.

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Arebhashe dialect

Arebhashe is a dialect of Kannada spoke by Hindus of the Gowda community in the regions of Kodagu and Sullia of Dakshina Kannada in the Indian state of Karnataka..

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Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

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Badaga language

Badaga is a southern Dravidian language spoken by approximately 135,000 people in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu.

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Banavasi

Banavasi is an ancient temple town in Uttara Kannada in the South Indian state of Karnataka.

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Bangalore Kannada

Bangalore Kannada is a vernacular dialect of the Indian language, Kannada, which serves as the official language of the state of Karnataka, as the native language of approximately 65% of its population and as one of the classical languages of India.

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Basava

Basavanna (ಬಸವಣ್ಣ) was a 12th-century Hindu philosopher, statesman, Kannada poet in the Niraakaara Shiva-focussed Bhakti movement and a social reformer during the reign of the Kalachuri-dynasty king Bijjala I in Karnataka, India.

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Bhakti

Bhakti (भक्ति) literally means "attachment, participation, fondness for, homage, faith, love, devotion, worship, purity".

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Bible translations into Kannada

The first attempt to translate Bible into Kannada was by the Serampore missionaries and they appear to have it completed by 1809.

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Brahmagiri archaeological site

Brahmagiri is an archaeological site located in the Chitradurga district of the state of Karnataka, India.

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Brahmi script

Brahmi (IAST) is the modern name given to one of the oldest writing systems used in Ancient India and present South and Central Asia from the 1st millennium BCE.

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Central Institute of Indian Languages

The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) is an Indian research and teaching institute based in Mysore, part of the Language Bureau of the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

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Central vowel

A central vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Chalukya dynasty

The Chalukya dynasty was an Indian royal dynasty that ruled large parts of southern and central India between the 6th and the 12th centuries.

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Charition mime

The so-called Charition mime is a Greek theatre play, in fact more properly to be called a farce or burlesque rather than a mime, which is found in Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 413.

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Chikmagalur

Chikmagalur is a town located in the Chikmagalur district in the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Chitradurga

Chitradurga (also known locally as Durga) is a city and the headquarters of Chitradurga district which is located on the valley of the Vedavati river in the southern part of the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Christian Gottlob Barth

Christian Gottlob Barth (31 July 1799 – 12 November 1862) was a German Protestant minister, writer and publisher.

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Chutu dynasty

The Chutu dynasty (Kannada: ಚುಟು) ruled parts of the Deccan region of South India in the 1st century BCE to 3rd century CE with its capital at Banavasi in modern Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka state.

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Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in American terminology), is any in a class of vowel sound used in many spoken languages.

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Culture minister

A culture minister is a Cabinet position in governments.

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D. R. Bendre

Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre (31 January 1896 – 26 October 1981), popularly known as Da.

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Dakshina Kannada

Dakshina Kannada is a district in the state of Karnataka in India.

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Dental consonant

A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as,,, and in some languages.

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Dravidian languages

The Dravidian languages are a language family spoken mainly in southern India and parts of eastern and central India, as well as in Sri Lanka with small pockets in southwestern Pakistan, southern Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan, and overseas in other countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.

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Durvinita

Durvinita is seen as the most successful ruler of the Western Ganga dynasty.

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Edicts of Ashoka

The Edicts of Ashoka are a collection of 33 inscriptions on the Pillars of Ashoka as well as boulders and cave walls made by the Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan Empire during his reign from 269 BCE to 232 BCE.

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Epigraphy

Epigraphy (ἐπιγραφή, "inscription") is the study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the writing and the writers.

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Ethnologue

Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.

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Extant literature

Extant literature and extant music refers to texts or music that has survived from the past to the present time, as opposed to lost work.

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Ferdinand Kittel

Reverend Ferdinand Kittel (ಫರ್ಡಿನ್ಯಾಂಡ್ ಕಿಟ್ಟೆಲ್) (7 April 1832 in Resterhafe, East Frisia – 18 December 1903 in Tübingen) was a priest and indologist with the Basel Mission in south India and worked in Mangalore, Madikeri and Dharwad in Karnataka.

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Fricative consonant

Fricatives are consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

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Front vowel

A front vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned relatively in front in the mouth without creating a constriction that would make it a consonant.

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G. Venkatasubbiah

Ganjam Venkatasubbiah (born 23 August 1913) is a Kannada writer, grammarian, editor, lexicographer and critic who has compiled over eight dictionaries, authored four seminal works on dictionary science in Kannada, edited over sixty books and published several papers.

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Ganges

The Ganges, also known as Ganga, is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through the nations of India and Bangladesh.

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Goa

Goa is a state in India within the coastal region known as the Konkan, in Western India.

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Godavari River

The Godavari is India's second longest river after the Ganga.

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Gokak agitation

The Gokak agitation (ಗೋಕಾಕ್ ಚಳುವಳಿ) was a successful language right agitation in the 1980s that fought for the first-language status of the Kannada language in the South Indian state of Karnataka.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST), often abbreviated as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of 29 states and seven union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic.

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Government of Karnataka

The Government of Karnataka is a democratically elected body with the governor as the constitutional head.

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Grammatical gender

In linguistics, grammatical gender is a specific form of noun class system in which the division of noun classes forms an agreement system with another aspect of the language, such as adjectives, articles, pronouns, or verbs.

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Halakki Vokkaliga

The Halakki Vokkaliga are a caste group of vokkaligas of Karnataka, India.

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Halmidi inscription

The Halmidi inscription is the oldest known Kannada language inscription in the Kannada script.

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Hangal

Hangal, also spelled Hanagal, Hanungal, and Hungul, is an historic town in Haveri district in the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Haridasa

The Haridasa devotional movement originated in Karnataka, India, after Madhvacharya, and spread to eastern states such as Bengal and Assam of medieval India.

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Harihara (poet)

Harihara (or Harisvara) (ಹರಿಹರ) was a noted Kannada poet and writer in the 12th century.

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Havigannada dialect

Havigannada or Havyaka Bhaashe or Havyaka Kannada is the native language of Havyakas.

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Havyaka Brahmin

Havyaka Brahmins (also referred to as Haveeka, Havika, Haiga and Haveega) are the Hindu Pancha Dravida Vedic Brahmins from the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Hermann Mögling

Hermann Friedrich Mögling (1811–1881), also spelt Herrmann Friedrich Moegling, was a German missionary from the Basel Mission who spent most of his career in the western regions of the state of Karnataka, India.

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Hindi

Hindi (Devanagari: हिन्दी, IAST: Hindī), or Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी, IAST: Mānak Hindī) is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or a way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent.

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Holiya language

Holiya (Golari) is a southern Dravidian language closely related to Kannada.

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Hoysala Empire

The Hoysala Empire was a Kannadiga power originating from the Indian subcontinent, that ruled most of the what is now Karnataka, India between the 10th and the 14th centuries.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Inflection

In grammar, inflection or inflexion – sometimes called accidence – is the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, and mood.

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Iravatham Mahadevan

Iravatham Mahadevan (born 2 October 1930) is an Indian epigraphist and former civil servant, known for his successful decipherment of Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions and for his expertise on the epigraphy of the Indus Valley Civilization.

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Irula language

Irula is a Dravidian language spoken by the Irulas who inhabit the area of the Nilgiri mountains, in the states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, India.

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Jagannatha Dasa

Jagannatha Dasa (Kannada: ಜಗನ್ನಾಥ ದಾಸ) (1728–1809), a native of Manvi town in the Raichur district, Karnataka state, India, is considered one of the notable Haridasa ("devotee of the Hindu god Vishnu") saint-poets of the Kannada language.

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Jainism

Jainism, traditionally known as Jain Dharma, is an ancient Indian religion.

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Janna

Janna (Kannada: ಮಹಾಕವಿ ಜನ್ನ) was one of the well-known Kannada poets of the early 13th century who also served in the capacity of a minister and a builder of temples.

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Jnanpith Award

The Jnanpith Award is an Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature".

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John Bunyan

John Bunyan (baptised November 30, 1628August 31, 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress.

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John Hands

John Hands (5 December 1780 – 30 June 1864 in Dublin) was a missionary of the London Missionary Society in India and, with William Reeve, translator of one of the first Bible translations into Kannada (1820).

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Kadamba alphabet

The Kadamba script (known as Pre Old Kannada script) marks the birth of a dedicated script for writing Kannada.

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Kadamba dynasty

The Kadambas (Kannada: ಕದಂಬರು) (345–525 CE) were an ancient royal family of Karnataka, India, that ruled northern Karnataka and the Konkan from Banavasi in present-day Uttara Kannada district.

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Kanaka Dasa

Kanaka Dasa (ಕನಕದಾಸ) (1509 – 1609) was a poet, philosopher, musician and composer from modern Karnataka.He was born in kuruba community (shepherd).

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Kanhangad

Kanhangad or Kanjangad is a major town and a Municipality in the Kasaragod District, state of Kerala, India.

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Kannada

Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Kannada people in India, mainly in the state of Karnataka, and by significant linguistic minorities in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Kerala, Goa and abroad.

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Kannada alphabet

The Kannada Script (IAST: Kannaḍa lipi) is an abugida of the Brahmic family, used primarily to write the Kannada language, one of the Dravidian languages of South India especially in the state of Karnataka, Kannada script is widely used for writing Sanskrit texts in Karnataka.

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Kannada Braille

Kannada Braille is one of the Bharati braille alphabets, and it largely conforms to the letter values of the other Bharati alphabets.

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Kannada cinema

Kannada cinema, also known as Chandanavana, Link referring rechristening of sandalwod as chandanavana at world kannada summit is the Indian film industry based in the state of Karnataka where motion pictures are produced in the Kannada language.

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Kannada dialects

Kannada dialects, in the broad sense incorporating the Kannada–Badaga languages, are spoken in and around Karnataka.

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Kannada flag

The Kannada Paksha flag is the official, bi-coloured flag of Kannada Paksha, a political party in Karnataka.

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Kannada grammar

The Kannada grammar (ಕನ್ನಡ ವ್ಯಾಕರಣ) is primarily based on Keshiraja's Shabdamanidarpana (c. 1260 CE) which provides the fullest systematic exposition of Kannada language.

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Kannada in computing

The Kannada language has come a long way in the computing field starting from initial software related to desktop publishing to portals and internet applications in the current age.

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Kannada literature

tags --> Kannada literature (ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ) is the corpus of written forms of the Kannada language, a member of the Dravidian family spoken mainly in the Indian state of Karnataka and written in the Kannada script.

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Kannada people

The Kannada people known as the Kannadigas and Kannadigaru are the people who natively speak Kannada.

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Kannada Sahitya Parishat

Kannada Saahithya Parishath (Kannaḍa Sāhitya Pariṣattu) (Kannada Literary Council) is an Indian non-profit organisation that promotes the Kannada language.

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Kappe Arabhatta

Kappe Arabhatta (ಕಪ್ಪೆ ಆರಭಟ್ಟ) was a Chalukya warrior of the 8th century who is known from a Kannada verse inscription, dated to c. 700 CE, and carved on a cliff overlooking the northeast end of the artificial lake in Badami, Karnataka, India.

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Karnataka

Karnataka also known Kannada Nadu is a state in the south western region of India.

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Karwar, Karnataka

Karwar is a city in Karnataka being the headquarters of Uttara Kannada district in the Southern western coast of India.

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Kaveri

Kaveri (anglicized as Cauvery), also referred as Ponni, is an Indian river flowing through the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

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Kavirajamarga

Kavirajamarga (ಕವಿರಾಜಮಾರ್ಗ) (850 C.E.) is the earliest available work on rhetoric, poetics and grammar in the Kannada language.

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Kerala

Kerala is a state in South India on the Malabar Coast.

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Kesiraja

Kēśirāja, also spelled Keshiraja (ಕೇಶಿರಾಜ), was a 13th-century Kannada grammarian, poet and writer.

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Kingdom of Mysore

The Kingdom of Mysore was a kingdom in southern India, traditionally believed to have been founded in 1399 in the vicinity of the modern city of Mysore.

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Kodava language

The Kodava or Coorg language is an endangered Dravidian language and the original language of the Kodagu district in southern Karnataka, India.

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Komarpant

The Komarpanth (or Komarpant naik or Comorpaica) are a social group centred in and around Goa, komarpants, primarily speak their own language, known as Halegannada (Old Kannada).

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Kota language (India)

Kota is a language of the Dravidian language family with about 900 native speakers in the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu state, India.

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Kumara Vyasa

Kumara Vyasa (ಕುಮಾರವ್ಯಾಸ) is the pen name of Naranappa (ನಾರಣಪ್ಪ), an influential and classical, early 15th century poet in the Kannada language.

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Kundagannada dialect

Kundagannada or Kundapura Kannada is a dialect of Kannada Spoken in Kundapura Taluk of Udupi district, Karnataka.

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Kundapur

Kundapur, also spelled Kundapura, is a coastal town in the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Kurumba language

Kurumba, also known as Kannada Kurumba, is a Southern Dravidian language of the Tamil–Kannada subgroup spoken by the Kuruba tribe.

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Kuvempu

Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa (29 December 1904 – 11 November 1994), popularly known by his pen name Kuvempu, was an Indian novelist, poet, playwright, critic and thinker.

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Labial consonant

Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.

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Labiodental consonant

In phonetics, labiodentals are consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth.

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Lakshadweep

Lakshadweep (Lakshadīb), formerly known as the Laccadive, Minicoy, and Aminidivi Islands, is a group of islands in the Laccadive Sea, off the southwestern coast of India.

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Languages of India

Languages spoken in India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 76.5% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 20.5% of Indians.

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Languages with official status in India

The Constitution of India designates the official language of the Government of India as Hindi written in the Devanagari script, as well as English.

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List of Kannada-language radio stations

This is a list of radio stations in Kannada.

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List of Karnataka literature

Karnataka literature refers to writings from the Karnataka region of South India roughly corresponding to the modern state of Karnataka.

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List of languages by number of native speakers in India

India is home to several hundred languages.

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M. Govinda Pai

Manjeshwar Govinda Pai (23 March 1883 – 6 September 1963), also known as Rastrakavi Govinda Pai, was a Kannada poet.

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Madikeri

Madikeri is a hill station town in Madikeri taluk in Karnataka state, India.

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Mahabharata

The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.

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Maharashtra

Maharashtra (abbr. MH) is a state in the western region of India and is India's second-most populous state and third-largest state by area.

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Malaprabha River

The Malaprabha River (Kannada ಮಲಪ್ರಭಾ ನದಿ) is a tributary of the Krishna River and flows through the state of Karnataka in India.

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Mangalore

Mangalore, officially known as Mangaluru, is the chief port city of the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Marathi language

Marathi (मराठी Marāṭhī) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by the Marathi people of Maharashtra, India.

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Mary Martha Sherwood

Mary Martha Sherwood (née Butt; 6 May 1775 – 22 September 1851) was a prolific and influential writer of children's literature in 19th-century Britain.

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Mid vowel

A mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages.

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Movable type

Movable type (US English; moveable type in British English) is the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual letters or punctuation) usually on the medium of paper.

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Mysore

Mysore, officially Mysuru, is the third most populous city in the state of Karnataka, India.

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Nadavara

Nadavara or Nadavaru is term or title in Kannada meaning countrymen.

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Nagavarma II

Nagavarma II (mid-11th or mid-12th century) was a Kannada language scholar and grammarian in the court of the Western Chalukya Empire that ruled from Basavakalyan, in modern Karnataka state, India.

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Narahari Tirtha

Narahari Tirtha (d. 1333 CE) was a scholar and one of the disciples of Madhvacharya.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive, nasal stop in contrast with a nasal fricative, or nasal continuant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

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Nayakas of Keladi

Nayakas of Keladi, also known as Nayakas of Bednore and Kings of Ikkeri (1499–1763), were an Indian dynasty based from Keladi in Shimoga district, Karnataka, India.

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Old Kannada

Old Kannada or Halegannada (ಹಳೆಗನ್ನಡ) is the Kannada language which was transformed from the 5th century CE during the reign of the Kadambas of Banavasi (ancient royal dynasty of Karnataka 345−525 CE).

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Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

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Palatal consonant

Palatal consonants are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

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Pali

Pali, or Magadhan, is a Middle Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian subcontinent.

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Pāṇini

(पाणिनि, Frits Staal (1965),, Philosophy East and West, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Apr., 1965), pp. 99-116) is an ancient Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and a revered scholar in Hinduism.

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Pharyngeal consonant

A pharyngeal consonant is a consonant that is articulated primarily in the pharynx.

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Phoneme

A phoneme is one of the units of sound (or gesture in the case of sign languages, see chereme) that distinguish one word from another in a particular language.

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Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder (born Gaius Plinius Secundus, AD 23–79) was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and friend of emperor Vespasian.

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Postalveolar consonant

Postalveolar consonants (sometimes spelled post-alveolar) are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge, farther back in the mouth than the alveolar consonants, which are at the ridge itself but not as far back as the hard palate, the place of articulation for palatal consonants.

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Prakrit

The Prakrits (प्राकृत; pāuda; pāua) are any of several Middle Indo-Aryan languages formerly spoken in India.

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; Claudius Ptolemaeus) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology.

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Pulakeshin I

Pulakeshin (IAST: Pulakeśin, r. c. 540-567) was the first sovereign ruler of the Chalukya dynasty of Vatapi (modern Badami).

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Pulakeshin II

Pulakeshin II (610–642 CE), also spelt Pulakesi II and Pulikeshi II, was the most famous ruler of the Chalukya dynasty.

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Purandara Dasa

Purandara Dāsa (ಪುರಂದರ ದಾಸ) (1484–1564) was a Haridasa (a devotee - servant of Lord Hari (Vishnu)), great devotee of Lord Krishna (an incarnation of Lord Vishnu) and a saint.

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Raghavanka

Raghavanka (ರಾಘವಾಂಕ) was a noted Kannada writer and a poet in the Hoysala court who flourished in the late 12th to early 13th century.

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Rashtrakuta dynasty

Rashtrakuta (IAST) was a royal dynasty ruling large parts of the Indian subcontinent between the sixth and 10th centuries.

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Rashtrakuta literature

Rashtrakuta literature (Sanskrit:राष्ट्रकूट, Kannada: ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರಕೂಟ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ) is the body of work created during the rule of the Rastrakutas of Manyakheta, a dynasty that ruled the southern and central parts of the Deccan, India between the 8th and 10th centuries.

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Retroflex consonant

A retroflex consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate.

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Rishabhanatha

Rushabhanatha or Rishabhanatha (also, Rushabhadeva, Rishabhadeva, or which literally means "bull") is the first Tirthankara (ford maker) in Jainism.

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Sahitya Akademi

The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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Saraswati

Saraswati (सरस्वती) is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, art, wisdom and learning worshipped throughout Nepal and India.

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Satavahana dynasty

The Satavahanas (IAST), also referred to as the Andhras in the Puranas, were an ancient Indian dynasty based in the Deccan region.

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Serampore

Serampore (also called Serampur, Srirampur, Srirampore, Shreerampur, Shreerampore, Shrirampur, Shrirampore) is a famous and historical city in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Shabdamanidarpana

Shabdamanidarpanam (ಶಬ್ದಮಣಿದರ್ಪಣಂ), also spelled Śabdamaṇidarpaṇam, is a comprehensive and authoritative work on Kannada grammar written by Kesiraja in 1260 CE.

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Sheldon Pollock

Sheldon I. Pollock is a scholar of Sanskrit, the intellectual and literary history of India, and comparative intellectual history.

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Shiva

Shiva (Sanskrit: शिव, IAST: Śiva, lit. the auspicious one) is one of the principal deities of Hinduism.

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Shivakotiacharya

Shivakotiacharya (also Shivakoti), a writer of the 9th-10th century, is considered the author of didactic Kannada language Jain text Vaddaradhane (lit, "Worship of elders", ca. 900).

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Shivamara II

Shivamara II was the son of Sripurusha and ruled the Western Ganga Dynasty from 788 – 816 C.E. He was also a noted scholar in Kannada, Sanskrit and Prakrit.

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Sholaga language

The Sholaga (Soliga) language is a Dravidian language related to Kannada and Tamil, spoken by the Soliga people.

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Shravanabelagola

Shravanabelagola is a town located near Channarayapatna of Hassan district in the Indian state of Karnataka and is 144 km from Bangalore, the capital of the state.

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Siribhoovalaya

The Siribhoovalaya (ಸಿರಿಭೂವಲಯ) is a work of multi-lingual literature written by Kumudendu Muni, a Jain monk.

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Sripadaraja

Sripadaraya or Lakshminarayana Tirtha (c.1422-c.1480) was a Dvaita scholar, composer and the pontiff of the Madhvacharya mutt at Mulbagal.

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Stop consonant

In phonetics, a stop, also known as a plosive or oral occlusive, is a consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

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Subject–object–verb

In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that order.

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Sullia

Sullia (also known as Sulya) is a taluk in the Dakshina Kannada district of the state of Karnataka, India.

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Syllable

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds.

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Tadbhava

(lit. "arising from that") is the Sanskrit word for one of three etymological classes defined by native grammarians of Middle Indo-Aryan languages, alongside tatsama and deśi words.

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (• tamiḻ nāḍu ? literally 'The Land of Tamils' or 'Tamil Country') is one of the 29 states of India.

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Tamil–Kannada languages

Tamil–Kannada is an inner branch (Zvelebil 1990:56) of the Southern Dravidian I (SDr I) subfamily of the Dravidian languages that include Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam.

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Tatsama

Tatsama (Sanskrit;, lit. 'same as that') are Sanskrit loanwords in modern Indo-Aryan languages like Bengali, Marathi, Oriya, Hindi, Gujarati, and Sinhala and in Dravidian languages like Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, and Tamil.

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Telangana

Telangana is a state in the south of India.

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The Pilgrim's Progress

The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan.

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The Times of India

The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Times Group.

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Timeline of Karnataka

The name Karnataka is derived from "Karunadu" which means Loftyland (High plateau), derived from the community's location on the Deccan Plain.

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Toda language

Toda is a Dravidian language noted for its many fricatives and trills.

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Trill consonant

In phonetics, a trill is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the active articulator and passive articulator.

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Tulu language

Tulu (Tulu: ತುಳು ಭಾಷೆ Tulu bāse) is a Dravidian language spoken by around 2.5 million native speakers mainly in the south west part of the Indian state of Karnataka and in the Kasaragod district of Kerala which is collectively known as Tulu Nadu.

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Urali language

Urali is an extinct southern Dravidian language that was closely related to Kannada.

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Uttara Kannada

Uttara Kannada (also known as North Canara) is a district in the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Vachana sahitya

Vachana sahitya is a form of rhythmic writing in Kannada (see also Kannada poetry) that evolved in the 11th century CE and flourished in the 12th century, as a part of the Sharana movement.

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Vadiraja Tirtha

Sri Vadiraja Tirtha (c.1480-c.1600) was a Dvaita philosopher, poet and mystic.

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Vaishnavism

Vaishnavism (Vaishnava dharma) is one of the major traditions within Hinduism along with Shaivism, Shaktism, and Smartism.

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Varada

The Varada River (Verada River) is a river in central Karnataka, India.

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Velar consonant

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (known also as the velum).

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Vijaya Dasa

Vijaya Dasa (ವಿಜಯದಾಸರು) (1682–1755) was a prominent saint from the Haridasa tradition of Karnataka, India in the 18th century, and a scholar of the Dvaita philosophical tradition.

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Vijayanagara Empire

The Vijayanagara Empire (also called Karnata Empire, and the Kingdom of Bisnegar by the Portuguese) was based in the Deccan Plateau region in South India.

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Vinayaka Krishna Gokak

Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (9 August 1909 – 28 April 1992) was a major writer in the Kannada language and a scholar of English and Kannada literatures.

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Visarga

Visarga (IAST) (विसर्गः) meaning "sending forth, discharge".

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Vyasatirtha

Vyasatirtha (c. 1460–c. 1539), also called Vyasaraja, Vyasaraya, Chandrikacharya and Tathacharya was Royal Priest of king of Vijayanagara Empire Krishnadevaraya, Vyasatirtha was at the forefront of a golden age in Dvaita which saw new developments in dialectical thought, flowering of the Haridasa literature under bards like his disciples Dhanicharya and Manicharya and an amplified spread of Dvaita across the subcontinent.

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Western Chalukya Empire

The Western Chalukya Empire ruled most of the western Deccan, South India, between the 10th and 12th centuries.

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Western Ganga dynasty

Western Ganga was an important ruling dynasty of ancient Karnataka in India which lasted from about 350 to 1000 CE.

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William Carey (missionary)

William Carey (17 August 1761 – 9 June 1834) was a British Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the Serampore College and the Serampore University, the first degree-awarding university in India.

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Yakshagana

Yakshagana (Kannada: "ಯಕ್ಷಗಾನ", Tulu: "ಆಟ") is a traditional theatre form that combines dance, music, dialogue, costume, make-up, and stage techniques with a unique style and form.

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References

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