Contents

1 History
1.1 Development
1.2 Dialects
2 Literature and Poetry
2.1 Current Literary Trends
3 Classification
4 Geographic distribution
4.1 Official status
4.2 Misinterpretation
5 Kannada script
5.1 The Dictionary
5.2 Extinct Kannada Letters
5.3 Kannada script in Computing
5.3.1 Transliteration
5.3.2 Unicode
6 Notes
7 References
8 See also
9 External links
10 Emergency telephone numbers
11 Important Kannada website address