The inscriptions of this period illustrate many variations of meters and structural variety. Then Chavunda Raya wrote the history of all the 24 Jaina tirthankaras (saintly teachers).ДЄround the 11th century, Kannada literature experienced a setback due to invasion from Tamil kings and only a few literary works could be seen done in this period. The poets Pampa, Ponna and Ranna, known as the Three Gems of Kannada literature, extensively wrote on episodes from the Ramayana and Mahabharata and Jain legends and biographies. During the 10th century, a new tradition by mixing prose and verse with the campu (an Indian verse form) style was introduced. Jainism was a popular religion at that time and there were some Jaina poets like Srivijaya and Guna Varman. The oldest extant book is king Nripatunga's literary critique Kavi Raja Marga (around 840AD). We can not determine the origin of Kannada literature from early (pre 800 AD) pieces of work available now. The earliest inscriptional records in Kannada are from the 6th century. The writing system of Kannada script includes the principles that governs the phonetics and is a system of syllabic and phonemic writing. As such, Kannada shares a large number of structural features with other Indian language scripts. However during later centuries, Kannada, like the other Dravidian languages was greatly influenced by Sanskrit in terms of vocabulary, grammar and literary style. The early development of the Kannada language was independent of the Sanskrit influence. Other languages like Konkani, Kodava and Tulu use only Kannada script. Only in the 13th century, the modern Kannada and Telugu scripts were developed.

In the middle of the seventh century a new variety of the Telugu-Kannada scripts was developed. A mixture of Telugu-Kannada scripts has been used in Kadambas of Banavasi and the early Chalukya of Badami inscriptions in the west even before the Seventh Century. With time, it underwent so many changes in the reign of Sathavahanas, Kadambas, Gangas, Rastrakutas, and Hoysalas. Kannada script originated from southern Bramhi lipi of Ashoka period. Kannada has a number of regional and social dialects and has marked distinctions between formal and informal usage. Kannada script which is closely similar to Telugu script in origin. It is one of the official languages of the Republic of India and the official and administrative language of the Indian state, Karnataka. It stands in the 27th place of the most spoken language in the world and there are about 35 million Kannadigas (Kanadda speaking people) in the world. A good number of people speaking this language who have migrated from India live in other parts of the world such as USA, UAE, Singapore, Australia, UK, etc. It is spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in India (one of the four southern states in India), though a significant number of Kannada speaking people can also be found in the other states. It is as old as Tamil, the truest language of the Dravidian family. Kannada is one of the most well known Dravidian languages of India. The origin of Kannada language, also known as kannarese, can be traced to the early Christian era.

Kannada old folk songs