Spoken Forms Of Kannada

SPOKEN FORMS OF KANNADA:

SPOKEN FORMS OF KANNADA:

Karnataka or the land of Kannada is vast; spread over an area of 191,791 sq km it is the 8th largest state in India in terms of geographical area. Kannada is the administrative language of Karnataka. The state shares it"s boundaries with Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, Konkani and Malayalam speaking areas. Before the unification of Karnataka Kannada speaking areas were scattered under the rule of Madras, Bombay and Hyderabad states. These scattered areas were under the influence of different administrative or major languages in the region such as Tamil, Urdu, Telugu, Marathi and English too. This unique situation has played a prominent part in bringing out great differences in the spoken forms of Kannada in different regions of the state. There is a marked difference among the spoken forms of Kannada from different regions, whereas the written form is uniform throughout the state.

There are at least 20 different and unique dialects in the spoken forms of Kannada. Based on major geographical regions spoken Kannada can be differentiated into three main forms as follow.

1.Mysore Kannada spoken in southern Karnataka,

2.Dharwad/Hubli Kannada spoken in northern Karnataka and

3.Mangalore/Karavali Kannada spoken in coastal Karnataka.

Apart from these three major forms, mention can be made of Bangalore Kannada-spoken in and areas around Bangalore, Havigannada- spoken by the Havyaka Brahmin communities among North Canara, South Canara, Udupi and Shimoga districts, Bellary Kannada- spoken in Bellary district, Gulbarga Kannada- spoken in Gulgarga division, Kumta Kannada- spoken in Kumta area, Kunda Kannada "" spoken in Kundapura area, Are bhashe- spoken in Sullia region of South Canara, Belagavi Kannada ""spoken in Belgaum region, Soliga Kannada "" spoken among Soliga communities of Nilgiri region, Badaga Kannada- spoken among Badagas of Nilgiri region and Kodava- spoken in The Coorg district.

A Mangalorean would say, "Namma bali adu untu", a Mysorean would say,"Namm taava adu aithe" and a Dharwad Kannadiga would say, "Namm paiki adu aithri"- in writing we write it as "Namma hathra ide", literally meaning- "We have it with us." Though Kannada is spoken in various forms the basic meaning is the same and the different words used are usually the synonyms.

The slang form in Kannada is unique too. Now a day some new words have been coined or rather imbibed into Kannada which has a different meaning in another language. Machha, (brother-in-law in Tamil), Mama (Uncle) and Magaa (Son) are the words used to call your close friends. Kuithane (he cuts) means he is too boring.

A Kannada speaker from Belgaum tends to use more words from Marathi and Hindi in his language because he comes from a place which was once ruled under the Bombay presidency. One from Gulbarga often uses words of Urdu origin in his speaking of Kannada. A Mangalorean while conversing often mixes his Kannada with the local language of Tulu. All of these forms of spoken Kannada have a uniqueness of their own, typical to themselves. The words, the style and the accent all change from one region to the other, yet it is accepted as one language - KANNADA.

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