Kannada is the first Administrative language of south India and third after Prakrit & sanskrit in India (Since Greek and Aramic are used in territories outside India ). This is arrived on the basis of full-length Inscriptions or Grants in the form of Copper plates and others.
First full length Inscription in
Prakrit | 230BC | Ashoka Edicts | Emperor Ashoka - Mauryan | both North and South India |
Greek , Aramic | 230BC | Asoka Edicts. | Emperor Ashoka - Mauryan | Afghanistan and Middle East |
Sanskrit | 1 Century AD | Mathura Inscription | Sadosa – Indo Scythian | North India |
375 - 425AD | Nagarjunakonda Inscription | Ehuvula Santamula – Ikshvaku | Andhra Pradesh | |
Kannada | 450AD | Halmidi inscription | Kakusthavarman – Kadambas | Karnataka |
Telugu | 575 AD | Erragudipadu , Cuddapah district | Erikal, Muthuraju - Renati Chodas | Andhra Pradesh |
Tamil | 610AD | cave-temples at Tiruchi and Pallavaram | Mahendravarman I - Pallava | Tamil Nadu |
Malayalam | 830AD | Vazapalli copper plate Inscription | RajaShekara - Chera | Kerala |
Marathi | 974AD | Marmuri Copper Plate | Irivabedanga Satyasraya - Chalukya | Maharastra |
Hindi | 1022AD | Shyopur | Unknown | Madyapradesh |
Kashmiri | 11th Century AD | Grants | Udai Singh - Chambas | Jammu & Kashmir |
Tulu | 1200 AD | Alupe Inscription | Kulashekara Alupendra - Alupa | Karnataka |
Arabic | 12th centuryAD | Grants |
| North India |
Persian | 14th century AD | Grants |
| North India |
Oriya | 1400AD | Puri Plats | Narashima IV, Eastern Gangas | Orissa |
Gujarati | 15th century AD | Kathiawar |
| Gujarat |
Bengali | 15th century AD | Copper Plates | king Govindamaikya | Tripura |
Portuguese | 16th Century AD |
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| Goa |
Assamese | 1630AD | Bhomoraguri Inscription | Pratap Sinha , Ahom King | Assam |
Dutch | 17th Century AD | Chengulpet |
| Tamil Nadu |
French, English | 17th century AD |
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| All over India |
Urdu | 18th century AD |
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| North India |
Sanskrit made its presence felt during Satavahanas ,by the time of Gupta's(4th century AD) it has almost completely replaced Prakrit in North India, After arrival of Guptas to the south it rapidly replaced the prakrit in south also. Sanskrit was used in inscriptions from 4th century AD in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh and 6th century in rest of south India. Trend of using Full Length inscriptions in Regional Languages along with Sanskrit started from 450AD in Kannada, 575AD in Telugu , 610AD in Tamil and 850AD in Malayalam. Rest of the languages from table.
Kannada Administative Language
If you see the table it is kannada which breaks the trend. The first use of regional lanuage in their respective domain comes after invasion and occupation by Chalukyas , Rastrakuta and their lineage of kings.
This is certainly an awesome piece of information, i am proud to be a kannadiga...
ReplyDeleteKannada appears to predate Tamil, not withstanding the antiquity claims of Tamil. This is reasonable because Kannada has a full alphabet equivalent to Devanagari (with a few extra long vovels and Tamil rr, and zha sounds) and would not get confused with derivations of meaning from an insufficient alphabet. Tamil almost certainly made a mistake in confusing Sangam with poets rather than Sangraha for poetic collection, for example.
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