Karhade (also written as Karada, Karhāḍā, Karhāḍe) Brahmins are a predominantly Pancha Dravida Brahmin sub-group, who speak Marathi and Konkani and to a lesser extent Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam In isolated pockets in Northern Kerala and Southern Konkan a few Karhade families still speak the old Karhāḍi dialect of Marathi which, though lexically similar to its parent languages, is heavily influenced by Dravidian languages such as Tulu, Kannada and Malayalam.