kannada

If kannada is difficult to learn, the same can be said of Telugu, whose script is close to kannada.

I studied Kannada, English and Hindi from grade 5-8; Sanskrit, English and Kannada from 8-10; Sanskrit and English from 11-12.

Pretty inhibiting for a speaker of Kannada that they can't name their résumé file with their own name.

For example, it recognized the Kannada character ttha (ಠ), but it doesn't know the poop (💩) character.

So says a native kannada speaker who can speak 3 other languages, read 4 and comprehend a couple more.

Its Hindi (national language of India) for me & Kannada (a local language here in India) for my co-founder.

Yes, Telugu is my mother-tongue and Kannada is my first-language.

Finnish = äiti Hungarian = anya Kannada = ತಾಯಿ (taayi)...

> Pretty inhibiting for a speaker of Kannada that they can't name their résumé file with their own name.

Or what if I start with an english word in the terminal, and then switch to kannada, what's the terminal supposed to do?

Yeah, the Kannada one tripped me up too.

I'd say the same is true for India as well even within the northern and southern state where Northern Indians prefer Southern Indians to speak Hindi and Southern prefer if Northern Indians speak Kannada and the local language.

Kannada), so the overall point stands that the "averaging" comment is a bit misleading.

"Kannada has a rep of being one of the hardest languages in India." This isn't really true.

This is so much true that Sanskrit is often printed in Kannada script in my state without any loss in phonetics and "spelling" Tamil might be harder to learn as it is not phonetic.

* The Coder: Antigravity (an agentic coding AI) handled the heavy lifting—writing the JS game engines and drafting the core lessons based on a custom "grammar spec." * The Knowledge Base: I used Gemini Deep Research to build a high-fidelity reference of Kannada linguistics.

Kannada is no harder to learn to learn than any other Dravidian or Indo-european languages.

Kannada has a rep of being one of the hardest languages in India.

According to Indian constitution there's no national language, but there are 22 scheduled languages including Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi etc.