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Exploring the Kannada Language: A Knowledge Quiz

Test your knowledge about the Kannada language, its history, literature, and cultural significance through this engaging quiz!

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1 Kannada is a highly ________ language with three genders (masculine, feminine, and neutral or common) and two numbers (singular and plural).

2 What family does Kannada language belong to?

3 In the period between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries CE, ________ Hinduism had a great influence on Middle Kannada (Nadugannada) language and literature.

4 Among them are Kundagannada (spoken exclusively in Kundapura), Nadavar-Kannada (spoken by Nadavaru), Havigannada (spoken mainly by Havyaka Brahmins), Are Bhashe (spoken mainly in the Sullia region of ________), Soliga, Gulbarga Kannada, Dharawad Kannada, Chitradurga Kannada, and others.

5 [14][15][16][17] The ________ found at Brahmagiri (dated to 230 BC) has been suggested to contain a word in identifiable Kannada.

6 Some early ________ coins bearing the Kannada inscription Vira and Skandha were found in Satara collectorate.

7 [41] A Kadamba copper coin dated to the fifth century CE with the inscription Srimanaragi in Kannada script was discovered in Banavasi, ________.

8 [39] This period saw the advent of ________ Sahitya which made rich contributions to bhakti literature and sowed the seeds of Carnatic music.

9 [19][20][21][22] The 5th century Tamatekallu inscription of ________ and the Chikkamagaluru inscription of 500 CE are further examples.

10 [48] Kavirajamarga by King Nripatunga ________ I (850 CE) is the earliest existing literary work in Kannada.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Halegannada, literally "old Kannada", is an ancient form of the Kannada language.
  • the Halmidi inscription, an Indian inscription, found near the tiny village of Halmidi, in Karnataka, India, is the oldest known inscription in the Kannada language.
  • the 1934 film Sati Sulochana was the first ever talkie produced in the Kannada language.
  • the creation of Kannada Sahitya Parishat, an Indian non-profit organization to promote the Kannada language, was first initiated by Bharat Ratna Sir M. Vishweshwaraiah, the Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom.
  • the didactic Jain literature, Vaddaradhane, written by Shivakotiacharya in c. 900, is the earliest available prose work in the Kannada language.
  • the noted medieval Telugu-language writer and poet Palkuriki Somanatha wrote important classics in Kannada and Sanskrit as well.
  • the name of the village Kokrebellur, an important breeding ground for the Spot-billed Pelican (pictured), is derived from the word "Kokkare" meaning stork or pelican in the Kannada language.
  • the inscription eulogising Kappe Arabhatta, a 7th century Chalukya warrior, records the earliest example of Kannada poetry metre Tripadi.
  • in c. 990, Nagavarma I authored the earliest available work on the science of prosody in the Kannada language.
  • in 1843 the German missionary Hermann Mögling published the first ever newspaper in the Kannada language.
  • Nagavarma II, a Kannada language grammarian of the 11th century, authored important writings in prosody, rhetoric, poetics and vocabulary.
  • Jagannatha Dasa is one of the widely known 18th-century saint-poets of the Kannada language.
  • Kavirajamarga, the earliest extant literary work in the Kannada language, was written by King Amoghavarsha I who was a famous poet and a scholar.
  • Nijaguna Shivayogi, a petty chieftain in 15th-century Karnataka, India, was a visionary writer and poet in the Kannada language.
  • Sri Ponna, the classical Kannada language poet of c. 950, is considered one of the "three gems of Kannada literature.
  • Shabdamanidarpana, a comprehensive and authoritative work on the grammar of the Kannada language, was written in the 13th century by the Indian linguist and poet Kesiraja.
  • Vijaya Dasa, an 18th century Hindu saint from the Karnataka Haridasa tradition, composed about 25,000 devotional songs in the Kannada language.
  • 11th-century "minister of war and peace" Durgasimha wrote the Kannada language version of the Panchatantra, the first Indian vernacular adaptation of these fables.
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