Learn Kannada: Kannada alphabet chart and letters

Learning Kannada language

About Kannada

Kannada is one of the 22 languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India and the official language of Karnataka. The 2011 Census counted 4.37 crore people in India whose mother tongue it is. It is written in the Kannada script. The Government of India declared it a classical language in 2008.

Links

To go further: Bharatavani, the portal of India's languages run by the Central Institute of Indian Languages, has dictionaries, primers and books in Kannada.

• Kannada University: Hampi: a state university devoted to the Kannada language, literature and culture
• Sahitya Akademi: India's national academy of letters (Ministry of Culture): books, translations and the yearly awards in Kannada and the other languages of India

Sources: Census of India 2011, Language (Paper 1 of 2018), speakers of the scheduled languages; the Constitution of India, Eighth Schedule; classical languages, Ministry of Culture (Press Information Bureau, 3 October 2024).