Kannada phonetics, morphology, vocabulary, grammar and syntax show significant influence of these languages. Some examples of naturalised (tadbhava) words of Prakrit origin in Kannada are: baṇṇa (color) derived fromvaṇṇa, hunnime (new moon) from puṇṇivā. Examples of naturalized...
Kannada is a highly inflected language with a grammar that is similar to that ofTamil. Like otherDravidianlanguages, it isagglutinative, which means that suffixes are added to stems to derive new words and to express various grammatical relationships. This can result in very long words such asSh...