I wanted to stick to the topic, but few sensless people who claim themselfs as kannadigas posted some irrelavant messages against great Classical Tamil and Tamil Community, So Its my duty to tell some truth and facts. Following is one of the fact.
Truth about Kannada....
Kannada belongs to the family of Dravidian (a corruption of word Tamilian) languages. The very word Kannada is from Tamil word 'Kanivu', means fruity or sweet. But sadly the language is not original and most of its words are either borrowed from Tamil or Telugu or Sanskrit.
Even the script is borrowed from Telugu. Many Kannada words are formed by changing 'Pa' in Tamil to 'Ha'. For example, 'Paal' became 'Haalu', 'Pugai' became 'Hogai', 'Palli' became 'Halli', 'Peyar' became 'Hesaru'.
Recently some Kannada scholars have claimed classical status for this language. These same scholars fought tooth and nail to prevent Tamil being declared as classical as it is still living. Maybe they are convinced that Kannada is dead or dying!
Kannada does not have its own original word for "classical" and even for "language", not to speak of "classical!"
Kannada can be called the second daughter of Tamil after Telugu. The numerals are all derived from Tamil. The grammar terms like Noun, Verb etc are derived from Sanskrit.
