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{{Infobox language
| name = Kannada
| nativename = {{lang|kn|ಕನ್ನಡ}}
| pronunciation = {{IPA-kn|ˈkʌnnəɖɑː|}}
| states = [[India]]
| region = [[Karnataka]] with border communities in neighbouring states
| ethnicity = [[Kannadigas]]
| speakers = 52.7 million (2020)<ref name="Census 2001">{{cite web|title=Scheduled Languages in descending order of speaker's strength - 2011|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language-2011/Statement-1.pdf|publisher=[[Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India]]|date=29 June 2018}}</ref>
| date =  
| revived-category =  Karavali Kannada, Havyaka Kannada, Kolara Kannada, Malenada Kannada, Mysuru Kannada
| familycolor = Dravidian
| fam2 = [[Southern Dravidian languages|Southern]]
| fam3 = [[Tamil–Kannada languages|Tamil–Kannada]]<ref name="ta-ka">Zvelebil (fig. 36) and Krishnamurthy (fig. 37) in Shapiro and Schiffman (1981), pp. 95–96</ref>
| fam4 = [[Kannada–Badaga]]
| ancestor = [[Old Kannada]]
| script = [[Kannada alphabet]]<br/>[[Kannada Braille]]
| nation = India
| agency = Various academies and the government of [[Karnataka]]<ref>{{cite book |title=The Karnataka official language act, 1963&nbsp;– Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) Part IV-2A |year=1963 |publisher=[[Government of Karnataka]]|pages=33}}</ref>
| iso1 = kn
| iso2 = kan
| iso3 = kan
| lingua = 49-EBA-a
| image = Kannada in Kedage font.png
| imagesize = 100px
| map = Idioma kannada.png
| mapcaption = Distribution of Kannada native speakers, majority regions in dark blue and minority regions in light blue.<ref>{{cite book|chapterurl=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/overview/languages/himal1992max.jpg|chapter=Currency of Selected Languages and Scripts|title=A Historical Atlas of South Asia|last=Schwartzberg|first=Joseph E.|authorlink=Joseph E. Schwartzberg|date=1978|publisher=University of Chicago Press|page=102|isbn=0195068696}}</ref>
| notice = Indic
| glotto = nucl1305
| glottorefname = Nuclear Kannada
}}
Kannada: ಕನ್ನಡ [kʌnːəɖɑː]) waa luqad Dravidian ah oo ku hadasha inta badan dadka Kannada ku nool ee Hindiya, oo badiba ku yaal gobolka Karnataka, iyo luuqado tiro yar oo ku hadla afafka Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Kerala, Goa iyo dibedda. Luqadda ayaa qiyaastii 43.7 milyan oo ku hadla afkooda hooyo, [8] kuwaas oo lagu magacaabo Kannadigas (Kannadigaru). Kannada ayaa sidoo kale ku hadasha luqada labaad iyo saddexaad, iyada oo ka badan 12.9 milyan oo non-Kannada ku hadla oo ku nool Karnataka, taas oo ku kordhisay ilaa 56.6 milyan oo ku hadlaayo [9] Waa mid ka mid ah luuqadaha jadwalka ah ee Hindiya iyo luqadda rasmiga ah ee maamulka gobolka Karnataka. [10]
Luqadda Kannada waxaa lagu qoray iyadoo la adeegsanayo qoraallada Kannada, kaas oo ka soo baxay qoraaga 5aad ee Cadamba. Kannada ayaa si qarsoodi ah u qirtay qiyaastii hal sano iyo badhkeedii, iyo qoraaga Old Kannada oo ku soo barwaaqay qarnigii 6aad ee Ganga [11] iyo inta lagu guda jiray qarnigii 9aad ee Rashtrakuta Dynasty [12] [13] Kannada waxay leedahay taariikh asal ah oo aan la caddayn Karin kun sano. Suugaanta Kannada ayaa la soo bandhigay sida ugu badan 8 Jnanapeeth abaalmarin [15] [16] [17]. Heerka ugu sarreeya ee luuqada dravidian iyo kan labaad ee ugu sareeya luqad kasta oo Hindi ah.