Kanarese
Americanadjective
noun
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one of a Dravidian people living mainly in the state of Karnataka, in southwest India.
noun
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a member of a people of S India living chiefly in Kanara
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the language of this people; Kannada
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Etymology
Origin of Kanarese
Example Sentences
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Five other linguistic groups were already demanding that new states be carved for those who spoke Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarathi, Kanarese, Malayalam.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Kanarese rivers have a larger body of water and a more regular flow than the streams of the Konkan.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
He was, too, a man of fair intelligence and, though we conversed in Kanarese, he told me that he knew some English, which proved that he was a man of a certain degree of education.
From Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Elliot, Robert H. (Robert Henry)
Thus the Sanskrit word brāhmaṇa, “a Brahmin,” becomes barāmaṇa in Kanarese and pirāmaṇa in Tamil; the Sanskrit Dramiḍa, “Dravidian,” is borrowed by Tamil under the form Tirāmiḍa.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
Nuniz calls the new king "Pureoyre Deorao," and "Pureoyre" seems to be a rough Portuguese version of the name Harihara; H and P representing the same sound in the Kanarese and Telugu languages.
From A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): a contribution to the history of India by Sewell, Robert
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