Will learning Kannada affect my English?
Kannada, also known as Kanarese is a member of the Dravidian language family and the official language of the state of Karnataka in southern India. Kannada is also spoken in the states that border Karnataka. Early 21st-century census data indicated that some 38 million individuals spoke Kannada as their first language and another 9 to 10 million spoke the language as a secondary language. Kannada is the second oldest of the four major Dravidian languages with a literary tradition. The earliest documentation of a full-length Kannada language stone inscription containing Brahmi characters with characteristics attributed to those of proto-Kannada in Hale Kannada script can be found in the Halmidi inscription, usually dated c. AD 450, indicating that Kannada had become an administrative language of that time.
Learning Kannada
If you’re someone who natively speaks Malayalam, Telegu or even Tamil, then you’re probably going to have a cake walk while learning Kannada. On the other hand, if you’re a native English speaker then you might face a few issues here and there. With that being said, many people worry if learning an intense language like Kannada can negatively affect their English speaking and understanding. To understand whether these languages affect each other, we must first understand each of them separately.
English is spoken by about 1.348 billion individuals in the world while Kannada is spoken by over 56.9 million individuals. There is a considerable difference between the spoken and written forms of Kannada language. While English is generally spoken in the same manner as it is written. Kannada was written in Kadamba script while English was written in a Latin alphabet. Kannada mainly originates from the Southern parts of India, specifically Karnataka and is spoken officially in Karnataka and spoken by linguistic minorities in the states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Kerala and Goa and also, by Kannadigas abroad. While English originates from England and is the dominant language of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and various island nations in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
Through the above information, we can clearly deduce that neither of them is mutually intelligible, instead they’re mutually unintelligible. In simpler terms, due to their different origins, family of classes and regions of use, they are in no way connected to one another. With that established, they also have no influence over each other. Both the languages originate from unrelated individual vocabulary, alphabet and grammar and have also evolved out of different writing systems. While English is mostly influenced by other Germanic languages, Latin and French, Kannada on the other hand is closely related to Tamil and Telugu, with its vocabulary and alphabet influenced by Sanskrit for ages. These major differences cause neither of the languages to end up influencing each other.
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In conclusion, Kannada and English are two languages independent of one another, neither are they mutually intelligible nor are do they influence each other. Due to this, neither of the languages can affect or influence the other’s vocabulary or grammar.