Editing Arebhashe dialect (section)

{{Short description|Kannada dialect of India}}
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{{Infobox language
| name             = Arebhashe
| nativename       = {{lang|kn|ಅರೆಭಾಷೆ}}
| states           = [[India]]
| region           = [[Sullia]], [[Kodagu]], [[Kasaragod]]
| ethnicity        = [[Arebhashe|Arebhashe Gowda]]
| speakers         = 
| date             = 2011
| familycolor      = Dravidian
| fam2             = Southern
| fam3             = [[South Dravidian languages|Southern I]]
| fam4             = Tamil–[[Kannada dialects|Kannada]]
| fam5             = [[Kannada dialects|Kannada–Badaga]]
| fam6             = Kannadoid
| fam7             = [[Kannada]]
| fam8             = Southwestern
| script           = [[Kannada script]]
| glotto           = areb1239
| agency           = [[Karnataka Arebhashe Samskruthi mathu Sahitya Academy]]
| isoexception     = dialect
}}

'''Arebhashe''' ({{Langx|kn|ಅರೆಭಾಷೆ}}, ''Arebhāṣe''), or '''Aregannada''' or '''Gowda Kannada''', is a dialect of [[Kannada]] mainly by Gowda communities in the regions of [[Madikeri]], [[Somwarpet taluk|Somwarpet]], and [[Kushalanagar|Kushalnagar]] taluks of [[Kodagu]] district, Coorg, [[Sullia]] and [[Puttur, Karnataka|Puttur]] taluks of [[Dakshina Kannada]] district, as well as [[Bandadka]], [[Kasaragod]] District in the Indian state of [[Kerala]].<ref name="auto">{{cite news |title=Arebase: A dialect rooted in cultural harmony |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/spectrum/spectrum-top-stories/arebase-a-dialect-rooted-in-cultural-harmony-868290.html |access-date=27 July 2021 |work=Deccan Herald |date=1 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Kodavas and Arebhashe Gowdas are like kith and kin: Rangayana Director |url=https://starofmysore.com/kodavas-and-arebhashe-gowdas-are-like-kith-and-kin-rangayana-director/ |access-date=21 July 2021 |work=Star of Mysore |date=16 January 2021}}</ref> The language was recognized by the Karnataka State government and formed an academy in 2011 to preserve the culture and literature of the Arebhahse Region which is named as [[Karnataka Arebhashe Samskruthi mathu Sahitya Academy]] supported by then Chief Minister [[D. V. Sadananda Gowda]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=paniyadi |first1=gururaj |title=This language academy a shame for linguists |url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/140912/nation-current-affairs/article/language-academy-shame-linguists |website=Deccan Chronicle |access-date=30 August 2020 |language=en |date=12 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Oct 20 |first1=Deepthi Sanjiv / TNN / Updated |title=Mangaluru: Academy begins work on Arebhashe dictionary {{!}} Mangaluru News |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangaluru/academy-begins-work-on-arebhashe-dictionary/articleshow/78757932.cms |access-date=21 July 2021 |work=The Times of India |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Gowda Kannada">{{cite book|title=Gowda Kannada|first=K. Kushalappa|last=Gowda|year=1970|publisher=Annamalai University,Department of Linguistics, Annamalai Nagara, Tamilnadu,1970}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=A Grammar of Kannada: Based on the Inscriptions of Coorg, South Kanara and North Kanara Dts.100 to 1400 A.D.|first=K. Kushalappa|last=Gowda|year=1972|publisher=Annamalai University, Department of Linguistics}}</ref>