Kadamba

The other day one of my friends who happens to be from Karnataka and claims to be a Kannadiga casually was telling an other friend that Kannada will be extinct by 2160, crap , utter crap I thought and did not agree with him, how can someone claim a language will be extinct in another 150 yrs when it has survived for 2000 yrs and probably the 2nd oldest surviving Dravidian language after Tamil.
His arguement was that as more and more people learn English , Kannada will be lost as a spoken language and will only be in texts as Greek, Latin and Sanskrit are. Probably he does not know the story of Mayura Varma, the founder of Kadamba Kingdom, Famously protrayed by Dr Rajkumar in the movie 'Mayura' and the famous song ನಾನ್ ಇರುವುದೇ ನಿಮಗಾಗಿ ನಾಡು ಇರುವುದು ನಮಗಾಗಿ.
The great Kadamba was humiliated by the Tamil Pallava king as he was from Kannada speaking region and that humiliation of his language and land prompted Mayura to build a kingdom a Kannada kingdom, probably the only in the history of the world which was established to protect the pride of a language and land. Kannada of such greatness will survive till the end of the world.