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Kanarese (känərēz`) or Kannada (kä`nədə), Dravidian language of India. See Dravidian languages Dravidian languages , family of about 23 languages that appears to be unrelated to any other known language family. The Dravidian languages are spoken by more than 200 million people, living chiefly in S and central India and N Sri Lanka.
..... Click the link for more information. . Kanarese (self-designation, Kannadiga), a people in southern India; the major part of the population of the state of Mysore. There are 22 million Kanarese (1970 estimate). They speak Kannada, a Dravidian language. Most of the Kanarese are Hindus, although there are also some Jains, Christians, and Muslims (the last only in the cities). The chief occupations of the Kanarese are farming (rice, millet, cotton, sugarcane), livestock raising (oxen, buffaloes, small cattle), handicrafts (pottery, wood carving), industrial labor, and work on coffee and other plantations. REFERENCENarody Iuzhnoi Azii. Moscow, 1963. Pages 627—43Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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