Not since We're drowning in LIPs!, Microsoft, you giving us some LIP?, Let there be LIPs, and Oops, we did it again has there been such a powerful pun in title of a post about Language Interface Packs....

But I could not resist now that the Kannada LIP is available for download, right here!

A little information about Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ):

Kannada is the state language of Karnataka, where it is mainly spoken, and one of India's many official languages. Sometimes also called Kanarese, Kannada is one of the Dravidian languages spoken in the South of India. It has about 20 dialects which can differ considerably, though the written form is rather consistent throughout.

Kannada, together with Tamil, Malayalam and others, belongs to the Southern group of the Dravidian languages. These form a language family on its own. Its languages are spoken on the Indian subcontinent, but are not related at all to Indic languages of the Indo-European family (like Hindi): The Dravidian languages are agglutinative (Words are formed by joining morphemes together) and have the interesting feature of an exclusive "we" (in which the addressee is not included).

Kannada is written with the Kannada script, which is supported by the Tunga font in Windows (which is used in the Uniscribe font fallback list on XP machines that have the font correctly installed, for a seamless Kannada user experience!)

 

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