from other languages.

Kannada was already a language of rich spoken tradition by the 3rd century BC. Based on native Kannada words in Prakrit inscriptions of that period, Kannada must have been spoken by a broad and stable population.

Kannada includes many loan words from Sanskrit. Some unaltered loan words include , , , , and . Some examples of naturalised Sanskrit words in Kannada are , , and raya from . Some naturalised words of Prakrit origin in Kannada are derived from vanna, from punniva.

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