OLAC resources in and about the Kannada language

ISO 639-3: kan

The combined catalog of all OLAC participants contains the following resources that are relevant to this language:

• Primary texts
• Lexical resources
• Language descriptions
• Other resources about the language
• Other resources in the language

Other known names and dialect names: Aine Kuruba, Banglori, Bellary, Bijapur, Canarese, Gulbarga, Jeinu Kuruba, Kanarese, Kumta, Madrassi, Nanjangud

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Primary texts

1. ONLINEThe Bible in Kanarese. British and Foreign Bible Society. 1959. The Bible Society of India and Ceylon. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_kan_gen-1
2. ONLINELinguistic Survey of India. Grierson, G.A. 1967. Motilal Banarsidass. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_kan_vertxt-1

Lexical resources

1. ONLINECrúbadán language data for Kannada. Kevin Scannell. 2018. The Crúbadán Project. oai:crubadan.org:kn
2. ONLINECrúbadán language data for Kannada (Latin). Kevin Scannell. 2018. The Crúbadán Project. oai:crubadan.org:kn-Latn
3. Learn Kannada in 30 days. Ranga Rao. 1988. National integration language series. oai:gial.edu:28140
4. ONLINEKannada Swadesh List. n.a. n.d. The Rosetta Project: A Long Now Foundation Library of Human Language. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_kan_swadesh-1
5. ONLINEConcreteness and imageability lexicon MEGA.HR-Crossling. Ljubešić, Nikola. 2018. Jožef Stefan Institute. oai:www.clarin.si:11356/1187

Language descriptions

1. Kannada : a cultural introduction to the spoken styles of the language. McCormack, William Charles, 1929-. 1966. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. oai:gial.edu:18267
2. Learn Kannada in 30 days. Ranga Rao. 1988. National integration language series. oai:gial.edu:28140
3. An outline of colloquial Kannada. Bright, William, 1928-. 1958. Deccan College Post-graduate and Research Institute, Poona, India. Deccan College monograph series, 22. oai:gial.edu:9913
4. ONLINEGlottolog 5.3 Resources for Kannada. n.a. 2026. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. oai:glottolog.org:nucl1305
5. ONLINEPHOIBLE 2.0 phonemic inventories for Kannada. n.a. 2019. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. oai:phoible.org:nucl1305
6. ONLINEThe Dravidian Languages. Steever, Stanford B. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:2016
7. ONLINEAn Outline of Colloquial Kannada. Bright, William. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:2194
8. ONLINEA Reference Grammar of Spoken Kannada. Schiffman, Harold F. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:2720
9. ONLINEPronominalization. Bhat, D. N. S. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:3560
10. ONLINEIndefinite Pronouns. Haspelmath, Martin. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:3695
11. ONLINELexicon anaphora and pronouns in Kannada. Amritavalli, R. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:3738
12. ONLINEGrammatik der kanaresischen Schriftsprache. Jensen, Hans. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:3882
13. ONLINEReduplication in South Asian Languages. An Areal, Typological and Historical Study. Abbi, Anvita. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:4003
14. ONLINEThe Indian Linguistic Area Revisited. Emeneau, Murray B. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:4086
15. ONLINEConjunctive Operators in South-Asian Languages. Gil, David. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:4088
16. ONLINEDiachronic Sources of 'All' and 'Every'. Haspelmath, Martin. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:4090
17. ONLINEKannada: Descriptive Grammar. Sridhar, S. N. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:793
18. ONLINEKannada. Steever, Stanford B. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:795
19. ONLINEKannada Phonetic Reader. Upadhyaya, U. P. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:856
20. ONLINELinguistic Survey of India. Grierson, G.A. 1967. Motilal Banarsidass. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_kan_morsyn-2
21. ONLINEThe World's Writing Systems: Kannada and Telugu Writing. Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William. 1996. Oxford University Press. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_kan_ortho-1
22. ONLINEWALS Online Resources for Kannada. n.a. 2026. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. oai:wals.info:knd
23. ONLINEWOLD Resources for Kannada. n.a. 2013. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. oai:wold.clld.org:180
24. ONLINELAPSyD Online page for Kannada. Maddieson, Ian. 2009. www.lapsyd.ddl.cnrs.fr. oai:www.lapsyd.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr:src107

Other resources about the language

1. Spoken Kannada : lessons 1-12. Bright, William, 1928-. 1960. Berkeley : Center for South Asia Studies, Institute for International Studies, University of California. oai:gial.edu:19435
2. Surrey Person Syncretism Database. Baerman, Matthew. 2002. University of Surrey. oai:surrey.smg.surrey.ac.uk:personsyncretism
3. ONLINEKannada: a language of India. n.a. 2018. SIL International. oai:ethnologue.com:kan
4. ONLINELINGUIST List Resources for Kannada. Damir Cavar, eLinguistics Foundation Board Member (editor); Malgorzata E. Cavar, Director of Linguist List (editor). 2022-05-31. The LINGUIST List (www.linguistlist.org). oai:linguistlist.org:lang_kan
5. ONLINEOn downstairs transitivity in causative clause unions. Frantz, Donald G. 1977. SIL International. oai:sil.org:40061
6. ONLINELinguistic Survey of India. Grierson, G.A. 1967. Motilal Banarsidass. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_kan_detail-1
7. ONLINEUniversal Declaration of Human Rights. n.a. n.d. The Rosetta Project: A Long Now Foundation Library of Human Language. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_kan_undec-1

Other resources in the language

1. ONLINECAMIO Transcription Languages. Arrigo, Michael; Strassel, Stephanie; Caruso, Christopher. 2022. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2022T07
2. ONLINEThe EMILLE/CIIL Corpus. n.a. 2004. ELRA (European Language Resources Association). oai:catalogue.elra.info:ELRA-W0037

Other known names and dialect names: Aine Kuruba, Banglori, Bellary, Bijapur, Canarese, Gulbarga, Jeinu Kuruba, Kanarese, Kumta, Madrassi, Nanjangud

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