The Word Problem in Kannada Script

ಕನ್ನಡ ಬರಹದ ಪದಸಮಸ್ಯೆ

Author: D. N. Shankara Bhat (ಡಿ. ಎನ್. ಶಂಕರ ಬಟ್) Read by: Malati Bhat Published: date unknown Source quality: ❌ Almost entirely unavailable or garbled — 20 of 25 parts have no transcript at all Transcript: youtube/kn/full.md

Source Limitations: No usable book description was retrieved for Book 11 specifically — the description-raw.md file in this directory contains a Wayback Machine page for Book 30 (ಕನ್ನಡ ಬರಹವನ್ನು ಸರಿಪಡಿಸೋಣ), not Book 11. The 25-part YouTube transcript series is the worst-transcribed of all four books assessed: 20 of 25 parts are completely unavailable, Part 19’s transcript was explicitly disabled by the uploader, Part 2 pulled a wrong video (Arabic content), and Parts 1 and 13 are identical garbled text, likely from a mismatched video. The overview below is inferred entirely from: (a) the book title, (b) comparison with Book 30 Chapter 5 which has an identically titled chapter, and (c) the single partially readable fragment (Part 8). No prose from the book has been recovered.

Overview

(Inferred from title and cross-reference with Book 30 — no direct description available)

ಪದಸಮಸ್ಯೆ = ಪದ (word) + ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ (problem). The “word problem” in written Kannada, in DNS Bhat’s framework, has two aspects:

Existing vocabulary: Kannada prose relies heavily on Sanskrit loanwords (ತತ್ಸಮ words) even where native Dravidian words exist or could be coined
New vocabulary: When modern or technical concepts require new words, Kannada writers reflexively use Sanskrit roots and compounding rather than native Kannada morphology

The solution Bhat proposes is to apply native Kannada word-formation rules — using Dravidian roots and Kannada suffixes (ಒಟ್ಟು) rather than Sanskrit sandhi and samasa. This is the word-reform program that complements his script-reform program (Books 07, 08, 30).

Book 30 (ಕನ್ನಡ ಬರಹವನ್ನು ಸರಿಪಡಿಸೋಣ) contains a chapter titled identically — ಕನ್ನಡ ಬರಹದ ಪದಸಮಸ್ಯೆ (Chapter 5). Book 11 is likely the earlier standalone monograph on this topic that was later condensed and incorporated into Book 30’s chapter structure.

Part-by-Part

Part 1 — Watch on YouTube

⚠️ Transcript garbled and marked unavailable. Appended text appears to be from a different video entirely: “ಮೈಂದ್ರ ಅಕ್ಷರ ವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾರಣ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಿತ ಕ್ರಿಯಾಪದಗಳು ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷ್ ಮತ್ತು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ನಾನಾ ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ವಿತರಣೆಯಾಗುತ್ತವೆ” — looks like ASR output for a school grammar lesson, not this book.

Part 2 — Watch on YouTube

❌ Wrong video fetched. Transcript contains Arabic text (“وبركاته وانتم اذا لديك ليش”) — YouTube ID mismatch during transcript extraction.