Kannada dialects
Kannada dialects, in the broad sense incorporating the Kannada–Badaga languages, are spoken in and around Karnataka. Apart from literary Kannada, used in television,  news and literature, there are many spoken dialects. Kannada dialects 
Dialects of Kannada language fall into four groups:
Coastal
 Mangaluru
 Halakki Achchagannada
 Barkur
 Havyaka
 Kundagannada
 Sirsi Kannada
 Malenadu
 Nador Kannada

Northern
 Vijayapura
 Kalaburagi
 Dharwad
 Belagavi

South-Western
 Arebhashe
 Tiptur
 Rabakavi
 Nanjangudu Kannada

Southern
 Aruvu
 Bengaluru Kannada
 Chamarajanagar
 Mandya
 Banakal Kannada

Kannada languages 
Kannada is the Badaga-related language spoken by the Badaga community in the Nilgiri region in Tamil Nadu. Urali, Holiya and Sholaga are also close to Kannada. Scholars of Kannada languages
 Aluru Venkata Rao
 Shamba Joshi
Kuvempu.K.V Puttappa
 D. L. Narasimhachar
 M. Chidananda Murthy
 T. V. Venkatachala Shastri
 M. M. Kalburgi
 Hampa Nagarajaiah
 Kamala Hampana
 D. N. Shankar Bhat
 A. K. Ramanujan
 H. Tipperudraswamy

See also
 Dialect or language

References 

Kannada language
Languages of Karnataka
Dravidian languages