Kannada to English Translation
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All 198 language pairsAbout Kannada and English
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).
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.
How Kannada and English compare
- Kannada is written in the Kannada script and English in the Latin alphabet, so the translation changes the script as well as the words.
- Kannada and English come from different language families (Dravidian and Germanic), so most words have no shared root.
- Kannada usually puts words in the order subject–object–verb, with the verb at the end; English uses subject–verb–object, so sentences are reordered in translation.
| Kannada | English | |
|---|---|---|
| Script | Kannada script | Latin alphabet |
| Letters | ಅ ಆ ಇ ಈ ಉ ಕ ಖ ಗ | A B C D E F G H |
| Hello | ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ | Hello |
| Thank you | ಧನ್ಯವಾದ | Thank you |
| Written | Left to right | Left to right |
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