Kannada Lessons 01

Introduction

Kannada is one of the major Dravidian languages of India, spoken predominantly in the southern state of Karnataka. Kannada, whose native speakers are called Kannadigas, number roughly 35 million, making it the 27th most spoken language in the world. It is one of the official languages of India and the official and administrative language of the state of Karnataka. The Kannada language is written using the Kannada script. The other native languages of Karnataka, Tulu, Kodava Takk and Konkani are also written using the Kannada script. There are many non Kannadigans who have interest to speak in Kannada. I have targeted this book those who can speak in English and have no or very little knowledge in Kannada. So I hope this book will help you to acquire some knowledge in Kannada.

Numbers

One ------------Ondu
Two ------------Aradu
Three ----------Muuru
Four -----------Nalaku
Five -----------Aidu
Six ------------Aaru
Seven ----------Yelu
Eight ----------Entu
Nine -----------Ombathtu
Ten ------------Haththu
Eleven ---------Hannondu
Twelve ---------Hanneradu
Thirteen -------Hadimooru
Fourteen -------Hadinalku
Fifteen --------Hadinaidhu
Sixteen --------Hadinaru
Seventeen ------Hadinelu
Eighteen -------Hadinentu
Nineteen -------Hathombathu
Twenty ---------Ippaththu
Twenty One -----Ippatha Ondu
Twenty Two -----Ippatha Yeradu
Twenty Three ---Ippatha Muuru
Thrity ---------Muvaththu
Fourty ---------Naluvathhu
Fifty ----------Ivaththu
Sixty ----------Aruvaththu
Seventy --------Eppaththu
Eighty ---------Embaththu
Ninety ---------Thombaththu
Hundred --------Nuuru
Two Hundred ----Innuru
Three Hundred --Munnuuru
Four Hundred ---Nannuuru
Five Hundred ---Inuuru
Thousand -------Saavira
Ten Thousand ---Haththusavira
One Lakh -------Ondu Laksha
Half -----------Ardha
Less -----------Kammi
More -----------Jasthi

Colours

Red -------Kempu
Blue ------Neela
Yellow ----Haladi
Green -----Haseru
Brown -----Kandu
Purple ----Uudaa
Grey ------Budu
White -----Bili
Black -----Kappu
Orange ----Chandra (KiththaaLe(fruit))

Directions

North -----Uttara
South -----Dakshina
East ------Purva
West ------Paschima
Rigt ------Bala
Left ------Eda
Front -----Munde
Back ------Hende
In --------Olage
Out -------Horage

Time and Duration

Second ----------Kshana
Minute ----------Nimisha
Hour ------------Gante
Days ------------Dina
Weeks -----------Vara
Months ----------Timgalu
Year ------------Varsha
Dawn ------------Arunodaya
Early Morning ---Belaginajama
Morning ---------Beligge
Noon ------------Hagalu
Evening ---------Sayankala
Night -----------Rathri
Midnight --------Madhya rathri
Now -------------Lga
Later -----------Amele
One O'Clock AM --Rathri Ondu Gante
Two O'Clock AM --Rathri Aradu Gante
One O'Clock PM --Madhyana Ondu Gante
Two O'Clock PM --Madhyana Aradu Gante

Days

Sunday --------Bhanuvaara
Monday --------Somavaara
Tuesday -------Mangalavaara
Wednesday -----Budhavaara
Thursday ------Guruvaara
Friday --------Shukravaara
Saturday ------Shanivaara
Today ---------Ivattu
Yesterday -----Ninne
Tommorrow -----NaLe
This week -----Ee Vara
Next Week -----Mumdina Vara

NAAC accredited JSS college of Arts, Commerce and Science (Autonomous) with A grade

National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) was established by the UGC in September 1994 at Bangalore for evaluating the performance of the Universities and Colleges in India. NAAC's mandate includes the task of performance evaluation, assessment and accreditation of universities and colleges in the country.
Previously JSS College (Ooty road) was accredited with B++ and hence applied for re evaluation as to achieve A grade. Students, teachers, management and even all those belongs to college had put forth their maximum effort to go next step. NAAC visited the college for three days survey from 9 to 11 th of this month. Finally when it came turn for the result, we got an A grade.

List of Institutions Re-Accredited by NAAC
(on September 16, 2008)

Universities

Sl. No.	Name of the Institution	State	CGPA	Grade
	Andhra University, Visakhapatnam,	Andhra Pradesh	3.65	A
	Bangalore University, Bangalore,	Karnataka	3.12	A
	Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore,	Madhya Pradesh	2.57	B
	Punjabi University, Patiala,	Punjab	3.11	A
	University of Kalyani, Kalyani,	West Bengal	2.67	B
	Jadavpur University, Kolkata,	West Bengal	3.61	A

Colleges

Sl. No.	Name of the Institution	State	CGPA	Grade
	Andhra Loyola College (Autonomous) Vijayawada,	Andhra Pradesh	3.65	A
	Hindu College, Guntur,	Andhra Pradesh	3.01	A
	National Education Society (R) Acharya Tulsi National College of Commerce, Shimoga,	Karnataka	2.86	B
	Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College, Bangalore,	Karnataka	3.80	A
	Sahyadri Arts and Commerce College, Shimoga,	Karnataka	3.01	A
	Karnataka Law Society's Gogte College of Commerce Belgaum,	Karnataka	2.86	B
	J.S.S. College of Arts, Commerce and Science (Autonomous) Mysore,	Karnataka	3.03	A
	Mount Carmel College of Teacher Education for Women, Kottayam,	Kerala	3.23	A
	R. E. Society's R. P. Gogate College of Arts & Science and R. V. Jogalekar College of Commerce Ratnagiri,	Maharashtra	3.25	A
	Birla College of Arts, Science and Commerce Kalyan,	Maharashtra	3.37	A
	P. S. G. R. Krishnammal College for Women (Autonomous), Coimbatore,	Tamil Nadu	3.55	A
	Government College of Education for Women Coimbatore,	Tamil Nadu	2.68	B
	Jayaraj Annapackiam College for Women (Autonomous), Periyakulam,	Tamil Nadu	3.02	A
	Sri Sarada College for Women (Autonomous) Salem,	Tamil Nadu	2.94	B
	The Standard Fireworks Rajaratnam College for Women (Autonomous), Sivakasi,	Tamil Nadu	3.31	A
	Stella Maris College Autonomous) Chennai,	Tamil Nadu	3.57	A
	Vellalar College for Women (Autonomous) Erode,	Tamil Nadu	3.31	A

Big Bang Day

Well, is it the Higgs boson or the Higgs particle? We seem to be inclining towards the latter, which is a shame. For while more people may know what a particle is than know what a boson is, "Higgs boson" sounds better: more mysterious, more scientific.

Thanks to Radio 4's Big Bang Day last Wednesday, there are more people than ever before who could give the then science minister William Waldegrave the answer he craved in 1993, when he asked facetiously for a comprehensible definition of what a Higgs boson was and why we should be looking for it.

We now know that the Higgs boson is the reason everything, even William Waldegrave's brain, has mass; we just haven't seen one yet. Which is why the Large Hadron Collider has been built, and why Radio 4 sent Today's Andrew Marr to watch it being switched on. According to the Afternoon Play Lost Souls, a specially commissioned episode of Torchwood, the Doctor Who spin-off, it should not have been switched on until the possibility of murderous extra-dimensional aliens jumping into our universe had been ruled out. (Most people have been worried about the LHC sucking the earth into a black hole. They worry needlessly. It won't happen until October, when the really interesting experiments start.)

Most successful of the laudable attempts to get our heads round this subject have been Simon Singh's daily 15-minute programmes, 5 Particles, which patiently and lucidly tell us about electrons, quarks, antiparticles and the like. We are a long way, it transpires, from agreeing on the pronunciation of "quark" – does it rhyme with "ark" or "walk"? – let alone powering the Enterprise with antimatter. Incidentally, it's quite legitimate to use the noises made by the Enterprise to keep people's attention in programmes like this, but when, as in Ben Miller's r Great Big Particle Adventure, you use the music from the Winter Olympics while a scientist makes an analogy using snowshoes, then that's just distracting.

My favourite, though, was Steve Punt's one-off comedy, The Genuine Particle, which proposed that turning on the LHC would create a wormhole in time. It was an almost direct homage to Douglas Adams ("If we'd wanted an experiment that could have been halted by cups of tea we would have held it in England" or "It's very hard to smuggle an X-ray detector through an X-ray detector"), and none the worse for that. It also used more science, less patronisingly, than the episode of Torchwood. (It was disconcerting to learn that I knew more about particle physics than the good people of Torchwood. And I don't really know that much either.)

But let us salute Radio 4 for going crazy about the LHC. This is public service broadcasting with knobs on, a massive vote of confidence in general levels of interest and intelligence. I'm rather sorry it's over.