LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13 : 7 July 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Impact of Arabic and Persian Language on
the Kannada Language

PSVSV Prasad

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This paper deals with the impact of Arabic and Persian languages on Kannada language. This paper describes the influence of Arabic and Persian languages on Kannada language. The paper describes the reasons for the influence of Arabic and Persian language on Kannada language.

Keywords: Arabic and Persian language, dominant language in the Deccan, impact on Kannada language.

Borrowed Words in Languages

Otto Jespersen writes: “No language is entirely free form borrowed words, because no nation has even been completely isolated. Contact with other nations inevitably leads to borrowings though their number may vary considerably.”¹

And the Kannada language is no exception to this rule. Parts of Karnataka were under Muslim rule for a period during which Arabic and Persian influenced Kannada which led to the incorporation of some literary expressions or words of these languages into Kannada vocabulary. The Bahmani rulers in South India were great patrons of Arabic and Persian.

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