Kannada is one of the four Dravidian languages (the others being Tamil, Telegu, and Malayalam), all of which are spoken in southern India.
Kannada is the most
widely spoken language in contemporary Karnataka, one of the
"linguistic" states established after India's independence in 1947 to
bring people who spoke the same language and had a same culture under one state
administration.
Despite its recent
political importance, Kannada has a long history as a literary and cultural
language, and is especially significant as the language of the Lingayat religious
community's devotional (bhakti) poetry.
Also see Tamil
language.
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