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KANARESE

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 647 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KANARESE , a See also:

language of the See also:Dravidian See also:family, spoken by about ten millions of See also:people in See also:southern See also:India, chiefly in See also:Mysore, See also:Hyderabad, and the adjoining districts of See also:Madras and Bombay. It has an See also:ancient literature, written in an See also:alphabet closely resembling that employed for See also:Telugu. Since the 12th See also:century the Kanarese-speaking people have largely adopted the See also:Lingayat See also:form of faith, which may be described as an See also:anti-Brahmanical See also:sect of See also:Siva worshippers (see See also:HINDUISM). Most of them are agriculturists, but they also engage actively in See also:trade.

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