these are the sounds found in most native Kannada dialects:
there are also sounds not on the chart
aspirated counterparts of all stops
/f/, /z/ and front open-mid vowel occur only in loan words
labiodental approximant can be either bilabial or labiodental depending on the
position in a word
/a/ is central
long counterparts for /i/, /e/, /a/, /o/, /u/
(from:
Schiffman,
H. 1983. A Reference Grammar of Spoken Kannada. Seattle: University of
Washington Press.
Sridhar, S.N. 1990.
Kannada. London: Routledge.)