{{Short description|Dravidian languages spoken in South India}} {{More citations needed|date=May 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Use Indian English|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox language family |name = Kannadoid |altname = Kannada–Badaga |region = South India |familycolor = Dravidian |fam2 = Southern |fam3 = Southern I |fam4 = Tamil–Kannada |child1 = Kannada |child2 = Holiya |child3 = Badaga |child4 = Sholaga |child5 = Alu Kurumba |child6 = Betta Kurumba |child7 = Jenu Kurumba |child8 = Maundadan Chetti |glotto = bada1263 |glottorefname=Badaga–Kannada |map = File:Kannada Dialects.png |mapcaption = Map of Kannada dialects in the state of Karnataka. }} '''Kannadoid languages''', in the broad sense incorporating the '''Kannada–Badaga languages''', are spoken in and around Karnataka. Apart from literary Kannada, used in television, news and literature, there are many spoken dialects.
== Kannada Dialects == Dialects of Kannada language fall into four groups:<ref>Michail Andronov, 2003. ''A comparative grammar of the Dravidian languages''</ref> ;Coastal :* Mangaluru :* Halakki Achchagannada :* Barkur :* Havyaka :* Kundagannada :* Sirsi Kannada :* Malenadu :* Nador Kannada
;Northern :* Vijayapura :* Kalaburagi :* Dharwad
;South-Western :* Arebhashe :* Tiptur :* Rabakavi :* Nanjangudu Kannada
;Southern :* Aruvu :* Bengaluru Kannada :* Chamarajanagar :* Mandya :* Banakal Kannada
== Kannadoid languages == Badaga is a kannada-related language spoken by the Badaga community in the Nilgiri region in Tamil Nadu.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language_MTs.html|title = Census of India Website : Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India}}</ref>
Betta Kurumba, Holiya and Sholaga are also close to Kannada.
==Scholars of Kannada== * Aluru Venkata Rao * Shamba Joshi * Kuvempu (K.V. Puttappa) * D. L. Narasimhachar * M. Chidananda Murthy * T. V. Venkatachala Shastri * M. M. Kalburgi * Hampa Nagarajaiah * Kamala Hampana * D. N. Shankar Bhat * A. K. Ramanujan * H. Tipperudraswamy
==See also== * Dialect or language
== References == {{Reflist}}
== Further reading == * {{Cite thesis |title=A descriptive study of Aadikarnataka dialect of Kannada spoken in Mandya disatrict |last=Mallikarjuna Swamy |first=S. |publisher=University of Mysore |date=1990 |type=PhD |hdl=10603/92262 |url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/92262}} * {{cite thesis |title=Harijan dialect of Kannada in Belgaum district a linguistic analysis |last=Talawar |first=Maruti R. |publisher=Karnatak University |date=1993 |type=PhD |hdl=10603/95020 |url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/95020}}
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