Kannada language

Session I KANNADA WORD Naanu Neenu Namma Nimma Yaaru Yaavaga Yelli Avaru ENGLISH WORD Me / I am You Ours Yours Who When Where He / She (with respect). Also they / those people He / She. This person / these people Place / hometown Name Know Don’t know Like Door Window Chair Table House Come Come(with respect) How SIMPLE SENTENCE Naanu software engineer. (I am a software engineer) Neenu student. (You are a student) Namma desha Bharata. (Our country is Bharata). Nimma ooru ABC. (Your home town is ABC)

Girish Karnad is a product of cross cultural fertilization. Marathi is his mother tongue. Kannada is the language of his childhood that became the language of the writer. English is his academic language in which he has acquired proficiency. Besides these he knows Hindi and Sanskrit, too. On the one hand he inherited Indian tradition of drama and on the other he acquired modern techniques of drama. He makes good use of Indian mythology in his plays to find parables for the contemporary situations

through medium viz. verbal and visual. The approach in Karnad’s play is essentially a visual where his inclination towards visualization of the scenes and settings create a cinematic interest. The regular adaptations from Indian literature in several languages for Indian cinema , no doubt , brings curiosity of interlinking of some of the past and traditional Indian implications of the Indian past and her glory. The preconceptions and belongingness to the theory of the principles of Indian origin or heritage

A much early historiography of Karnataka by Aluru Venkatarao also delineates on similar lines identifying the juncture of Battle of Talikota in 1565 as the time of decline of glory of Karnataka. In his 1917 work titled Karnataka Gatha Vaibhava , Aluru Venkata Rao writes thus: Having flourished for 230 years this glorious kingdom disappeared in half a minute by accident. It dies. That was the end of Karnataka’s glory. The kumkum was wiped off Karnatakadevi’s forehead! The mangalsutra round her

learning involves four basic elements – chalk, blackboard, lecturer and students and interaction, traditional Sanskrit learning is based on Gurukula system. Sanskrit is the mother of all languages. It is most scientific language in term of Syntactic and semantics. Think Sanskrit language is all about religious texts, this is not true.Though the way all of Ancient Indian Scientific knowledgebase Astronomy, Chemistry, Mathematics,

The use of codeswitching between English and other languages is examined from a sociolinguistic perspective. It will be shown that codeswitching is instinctive and achieves overarching objectives such as serving the outcome of speech, defining identity and indirectly delineating aspects of the relationship between the participants, it 'lubricates' the conversation by making it more 'fluid', and when English is used, brings clarity and precision, particularly to formal arrangements. Finally codeswitching

Living a life walking on the language hyphen is demanding. And there are high expectations from all sides. There are critical comments no matter who it’s from. And there are judgments from onlookers. I constantly feel as if there is an invisible standard for what I should be able to do. I’ve lived my entire life in Dallas, yet English is my second language, but people don’t expect that from me when I tell them. There is an expectation here, as well as one in India. When I talk to people in America

concentrating on language and vocabulary. Extensive reading is to get the information, meaning and general theme of the material (Ahuja & Ahuja,

LANGUAGE PLANNING AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Language is a typically human phenomenon. In moving from the 'natural being' of animal existence to the 'cultural being' of human existence, language plays the decisive role. Language gives a sense of identity to an individual as well as a social group and, in the process, creates multiple identities. The maintenance, merger, clash and change in identities based on and reflected in the language change has prompted linguists, philosophers, psychologists

second language in India, particularly in education. It is even perceived as a preference for the instruction medium in school which enjoys the higher status than Hindi medium schools. Furthermore, English has been widely spoken by middle or upper class. With the global prevalence of English in the 20th and 21st century, English spawned unprecedented opportunities for India’s economy. Therefore, English remained its status despite ongoing objections to protest Hindi and other local languages. Moreover