canarese

from The Century Dictionary.

• Of or pertaining to either of two districts in western India, called respectively North and South Canara (or Kanara).
• noun singular and plural A native or natives of either of these districts.
• noun A language of the Dravidian group, nearly allied to Telugu, being one of several languages spoken in these districts, and over a large tract as far north as Bidar. Also called Karnata.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.

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• noun a member of a Kannada-speaking group of people living chiefly in Kanara in southern India