Districts having greater than 10,000 Kannada audio system.
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A language ought to have at the least 10,000 audio system to be listed within the census, with something much less getting clustered underneath the pinnacle of “Others”. Spread throughout south India, as many as 67 districts have Kannada listed as a class, which incorporates 30 districts in Karnataka, 16 in Tamil Nadu, 9 in Maharashtra, 5 in Telangana, three in Andhra Pradesh, two every in Kerala and Goa, when the 2011 census is taken under consideration.
Basavaraj Kodagunti, linguist and researcher on the Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi, has analysed the language-related information to make clear the distribution of Kannada audio system on the south Indian panorama.
Only 17 districts in Karnataka have greater than 10 lakh Kannada audio system every. Bidar, Yadgir, Gadag, Uttara Kannada, Udupi, Dakshina Kannada, Chikkamagalur, Kodagu, Chamarajanagar, Chickballapur, Ramanagara, Bengaluru Rural, and Kolar districts have lower than 10 lakh Kannada audio system.
Dakshina Kannada and Kodagu
If you think about the districts which have greater than 5 lakh and fewer than 10 lakh Kannada audio system, all of the districts within the State anticipate Dakshina Kannada and Kodagu fall within the class. If you are taking districts which have greater than 4 lakh and fewer than 5 lakh Kannada audio system, Dakshina Kannada and Kodagu nonetheless stay outdoors, however apparently Solapur in Maharashtra enters this class.
When districts which have greater than two lakh and fewer than 4 lakh Kannada audio system are thought of, Solapur of Maharashtra and Coimbatore and Krishnagiri of Tamil Nadu are available in and Dakshina Kannada and Kodagu nonetheless stay outdoors the class.
In all, 40 districts within the nation have a couple of lakh Kannada audio system, which embody all of the districts in Karnataka, 4 districts in Maharashtra (Solapur, Sangli, Pune, and Thane), 4 districts from Tamil Nadu (Coimbatore, Krishnagiri, Erode, and Nilgiris) and two districts from Andhra Pradesh (Anantapur and Kurnool).
No shared borders
Interestingly, of the 10 districts outdoors the State having a couple of lakh Kannada audio system, three districts – Pune and Thane in Maharashtra and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu – don’t share borders with the Karnataka
There are 46 districts within the nation which have greater than 50,000 Kannada audio system, together with 30 districts in Karnataka, seven districts in Tamil Nadu, 5 districts in Maharashtra, three districts in Andhra Pradesh, and one district in Kerala.
Mr. Kodagunti says that his research provides a view of the distribution of Kannada audio system outdoors the State and may also help the federal government design insurance policies and programmes specializing in the Kannada audio system outdoors the State.
“Since there was no decadal census in 2021, I had to rely on the 2011 census data to analyse the distribution of Kannada speakers. The analysis showed interesting facts about the significant distribution of Kannada speakers around Karnataka,” Mr. Kodagunti advised The Hindu. He plans to compile his analytical essays primarily based on linguistic information right into a e-book quickly.