Sankethi (sometimes spelled Sanketi) is a South Dravidian language that is closely related to Kannada and Tamil.
It is sometimes considered a dialect of Kannada or Tamil, but there are considerable differences that make it unintelligible to speakers of both languages.
[citation needed] It has strong lexical influences from Kannada (particularly in the colloquial form), as well as borrowings from Sanskrit.
[1][2] It is most commonly spoken in Karnataka, India by the Sankethi people, who migrated from Sengottai in Tamil Nadu.
This makes it difficult to write in the Kannada script, which would require multiple subscripted letters (ಒತ್ತಕ್ಷರ - ottakṣara).
Sankethi phonology is very similar to Kannada and Tamil, with the classical Sanskrit aspirates and retroflex laterals characteristic of many Dravidian languages.
ಪೂವಮಯು - full of flowers) Nouns Sankethi grammar is fairly similar to those of most other Dravidian languages, with six cases: nominative (unmarked), accusative, instrumental-ablative, dative, genitive, and locative.
The vocative is not fully functional case, and not all nouns have a separate form for it, and as such is not included in the traditional list.
As in Tamil and Malayalam, there is clusivity distinction for first person plural pronouns in Sankethi: ನಾಂಗ (nānga; exclusive) VS ನಾಂಬು (nāmbu/ inclusive), though the frequency usage varies.
Case Declension The declensional classes are similar to Kannada, marked by animate versus inanimate and weak (ಇ, ಈ, ಎ, ಏ, ಐ) versus strong vowel (ಅ, ಆ, ಉ, ಊ, ಒ, ಓ, ಔ, ಋ) endings.
Though Sankethi vocabulary is not systematized, there are some general rules for taking nouns from Sanskrit, Tamil, Kannada, or Malayalam.
Generally speaking, they undergo the following changes during conjugation Below are tables that show different tenses, given for the verb ಸಾಪಡು (to eat/drink): Non-Past Simple nī sapaḍaṇḍya/sāpaḍāṇdeyā (statement/question) nīnga sāpaḍaṇḍhyo/sāpaḍaṇḍhiḷa (statement/question) *In all tenses, the ನೀ form's final -್ಯ (-ya) becomes -ಎಯ (-eya) as a question, and the ನೀಂಗ form changes from -್ಯೊ (-yo) to -ಿಳ (-iḷa) as a question.
[citation needed] Present: ಸಾಪಡಲ್ಲ (sāpaḍalla) Present Progressive: ಸಾಪಡರಾಂಡಿಕ್ಕಲ್ಲ (sāpaḍarāṃḍikkalla) Past/Present Perfect: ಸಾಪಡಿಕ್ಕಲ್ಲ (sāpaḍikkalla) Past Progressive: ಸಾಪಡಾನ್ನಿಂದಲ್ಲ (sāpaḍānnindalla) Future: ಸಪಡವಿಲ್ಲ (sāpaḍavilla) Imperative Prohibitive All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
Vivēkū antaḥkaraṇū ikartaṇṇū avhālūme vattarū kottarū tamayūṃ tambyānyu pōle naḍandhgaṇū.