Kannada has NUMBER@1 million and was awarded the status of classical language in NUMBER@2 -LSB- -RSB- , while LOCATION@1 is considered to have begun as a dialect of old MISC@1 , had NUMBER@3 million native speakers .

MISC@1 was accorded the status of classical language by the Government of LOCATION@2 in NUMBER@4 and had about NUMBER@5 million native speakers . Kannada had NUMBER@1 million , while LOCATION@1 had NUMBER@3 million native speakers .
