Talk:Hubli kannada

Bangalore Kannada?

Never heard of this classification. Looks like "bookish Kannada" has been tried to pass it as Bangalore Kannada(of course with quite a bit slang). For that matter, culturally Bangalore was part of Mysore and any Kannada identity of Bangalore must be attributed to Mysore. Just as Mandarin spoken around Beijing area is considered as official dialect in China, does anybody want to project Bangalore Kannada as the official dialect of Karnataka?

Manjunatha (27 Oct 2005)