Bengaluru, June 4 -- Google on Thursday landed in a soup after a search on its portal showed south-Indian language Kannada as the 'ugliest language in India'.

The Search result sparked an outrage among the Kannadigas, with the Karnataka government threatening to issue a legal notice to the company.

Minister for Kannada, Culture and Forest in Karnataka, Aravind Limbavali, took to Twitter earlier on Thursday and highlighted the controversy, demanding an apology from Google.

"Kannada language has a history of its own, having come into existence as many as 2,500 years ago! It has been the pride of Kannadigas all through these two-and-a-half millennia. If Kannada is now called ugliest language in India, it is merely an attempt by Google to ...