English to Kannada Translation
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All 198 language pairsAbout English and Kannada
English is a Germanic language (Indo-European family), spoken in countries around the world; in India it is used alongside Hindi for the official work of the Union government, in courts and in higher education. It is written in the Latin alphabet: an alphabet in which vowels and consonants are separate letters.
Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) is a Dravidian language, from the language family of South India, spoken in Karnataka, where it is the official language. It is written in the Kannada script: its letters are round and close relatives of Telugu letters, as both come from the same older script. About 4.4 crore (44 million) people in India speak it as their first language (Census 2011).
How English and Kannada compare
- English is written in the Latin alphabet and Kannada in the Kannada script, so the translation changes the script as well as the words.
- English and Kannada come from different language families (Germanic and Dravidian), so most words have no shared root.
- English usually puts words in the order subject–verb–object; Kannada uses subject–object–verb, with the verb at the end, so sentences are reordered in translation.
| English | Kannada | |
|---|---|---|
| Script | Latin alphabet | Kannada script |
| Letters | A B C D E F G H | ಅ ಆ ಇ ಈ ಉ ಕ ಖ ಗ |
| Hello | Hello | ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ |
| Thank you | Thank you | ಧನ್ಯವಾದ |
| Written | Left to right | Left to right |
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