Kannadan.

1856 R. Caldwell Compar. Gram. Dravidian Lang. 6 The Kannadi or Karnâtaka..is spoken throughout the plateau of Mysore... ‘Karnâtaka’..is defined to mean primarily ‘a species of dramatic music’, or ‘comedy’: it is used secondarily in Telugu as an adjective to signify ‘native’, ‘aboriginal’..it then became the common designation of the Telugu and Canarese, or ‘native’ languages: and, finally, was restricted still further, and became the distinctive appellation of the Canarese alone.

1877 A. H. Keane tr. A. Hovelacque Sci. of Lang. 78 The Kanarese, or Kannada, occupies the north Dravidian district.

1942 F. R. Moraes & H. R. Stimson Introd. India ii. 16 Other widely spoken languages are the southern group—Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

1959 Clarendonian June 46 New editions of the First Aid textbook have recently been published in Arabic, Greek, Turkish, Chinese, Gujarati, Kannada, and Bengali.

1969 Filmfare (Bombay) 1 Aug. 23/4 There is friction between distributors, exhibitors and the State Government regarding exhibition of Kannada films in Bangalore.