How many Kannada speakers are there in the world?
Top 30 languages of the world
| Language | # of speakers | |
|---|---|---|
| 27. | Kannada | NATIVE: 35 million 2nd: 9 million TOTAL: 44 million |
| 28. | Oriya | 32 million |
| 29. | Burmese | NATIVE: 32 million 2nd: 10 million TOTAL: 42 million |
| 30. | Thai | NATIVE: 20 million 2nd: 40 million TOTAL: 60 million |
Are Kannada speakers decreasing?
Kannada speakers have declined from four per cent to 3.6 per cent. Marathi speakers have shrunk from eight per cent to almost seven per cent. Telugu speakers too have declined by a percentage point during this four decade period.
Is Kannada language growing?
Kannada recorded a 15.99\% increase when compared with the 2001 census numbers. According to the 2011 census, there are 4.37 crore Kannada speakers. Although, Sanskrit is the least spoken mother tongue, it witnessed a 75.60\% jump since the 2001 census – the biggest growth recorded for any scheduled language.
What is the percentage of people speaking Kannada in India?
Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and Urdu speaker numbers were more than that of Kannada – which was spoken by 3.73\% of the population. Konkani, which is another scheduled language spoken in Karnataka, also recorded a reduction in the proportion of people speaking the language in the country.
Is Kannada a second language in Karnataka?
Kannada. Kannada is also spoken as a second and third language by over 12.9 million non-Kannada speakers living in Karnataka, which adds up to 56.6 million speakers. It is one of the scheduled languages of India and the official and administrative language of the state of Karnataka.
What is the history of the Kannada language?
Kannada is a Southern Dravidian language and according to scholar Sanford B. Steever, its history can be conventionally divided into three stages: Old Kannada (Halegannada) from 450–1200 AD, Middle Kannada (Nadugannada) from 1200–1700 and Modern Kannada from 1700 to the present. Kannada is influenced to a considerable degree by Sanskrit.
What is the importance of Kannada as a court language?
Kannada was the court language of some of the most powerful empires of South and central India namely Kadambas, Chalukyas, Rashtrakuta, Hoysala dynasty and Vijayanagara empire.