All of these are questions. Most interrogatory words in Kannada begin with the 'e' sound (e as in everywhere). Notice it in S2, LE and AK and N. If not 'e', it is 'yaa..' (yaaru). Note that these are distorted spoken forms, and the literary forms sound a lot different.
If you are a South Indian, or a North Indian who knows a South Indian language, you'll notice that interrogations across ALL South languages begin with the y- sound.
"Hey, gay" is sometimes used as "A, gay" - which makes it more in sync with the others.
There are some more interrogatory words - kab, kis, koyi.. will be back with keys for these in my next post.
There are some more interrogatory words - kab, kis, koyi.. will be back with keys for these in my next post.
3 comments:
Nice and creative attempt to make kannada easier to the non-kannadiga's in the Garden city! But there is little confusion about the single words like LE, which can wrongly read as le which actually should be read as "yel ee". So I feel seperating those by a comma will sounds more appropriate.
Keep them going!
BhaavajeevigaLe, dhanyavaadagaLu. Will incorporate your suggestions!
This blog is amazing. Really helpful for ppl like me who have shifted to bangalore and dont even know a single word of kannada.
Seems like within one day itself the language is not totaly foreign to me now.
Why did u stop writing? or is it that you are writing on some other posts?
Please let me know.
Looking forward to have few more lessons from you.
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