diff --git a/Dictionary_kn.mk b/Dictionary_kn.mk
index 4567a816..769525d0 100644
--- a/Dictionary_kn.mk
+++ b/Dictionary_kn.mk
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ $(eval $(call gb_Dictionary_add_root_files,dict-kn,\
         dictionaries/kn_IN/kn_IN.aff \
         dictionaries/kn_IN/kn_IN.dic \
         dictionaries/kn_IN/hyph_kn_IN.dic \
-
 ))
 
 # vim: set noet sw=4 ts=4:
diff --git a/Module_dictionaries.mk b/Module_dictionaries.mk
index f9f69fa4..52de0143 100644
--- a/Module_dictionaries.mk
+++ b/Module_dictionaries.mk
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ $(eval $(call gb_Module_add_l10n_targets,dictionaries,\
 	Dictionary_is \
 	$(if $(and $(MPL_SUBSET), $(filter-out LINUX,$(OS))),,Dictionary_it) \
 	Dictionary_kmr-Latn \
+	Dictionary_kn \
 	Dictionary_ko-KR \
 	Dictionary_lo \
 	Dictionary_lt \
diff --git a/kn_IN/META-INF/manifest.xml b/kn_IN/META-INF/manifest.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..528a320d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kn_IN/META-INF/manifest.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE manifest:manifest PUBLIC "-//OpenOffice.org//DTD Manifest 1.0//EN" "Manifest.dtd">
+<manifest:manifest xmlns:manifest="http://openoffice.org/2001/manifest">
+    <manifest:file-entry manifest:media-type="application/vnd.sun.star.configuration-data" manifest:full-path="dictionaries.xcu"/>
+</manifest:manifest>
diff --git a/kn_IN/description.xml b/kn_IN/description.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5f26006b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kn_IN/description.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<description xmlns="http://openoffice.org/extensions/description/2006" xmlns:d="http://openoffice.org/extensions/description/2006"  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
+    <version value="2025.05.10" />
+    <identifier value="org.libreoffice.kannada.hunspell.dictionaries" />
+    <display-name>
+        <name lang="en-US">Kannada spelling dictionary, and hyphenation rules</name>
+    </display-name>
+    <platform value="all" />
+    <dependencies>
+        <OpenOffice.org-minimal-version value="3.0" d:name="OpenOffice.org 3.0" />
+    </dependencies>
+</description>
diff --git a/kn_IN/dictionaries.xcu b/kn_IN/dictionaries.xcu
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1eba915a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kn_IN/dictionaries.xcu
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<oor:component-data xmlns:oor="http://openoffice.org/2001/registry" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" oor:name="Linguistic" oor:package="org.openoffice.Office">
+<node oor:name="ServiceManager">
+    <node oor:name="Dictionaries">
+        <node oor:name="HunSpellDic_kn_IN" oor:op="fuse">
+            <prop oor:name="Locations" oor:type="oor:string-list">
+                <value>%origin%/kn_IN.aff %origin%/kn_IN.dic</value>
+            </prop>
+            <prop oor:name="Format" oor:type="xs:string">
+                <value>DICT_SPELL</value>
+            </prop>
+            <prop oor:name="Locales" oor:type="oor:string-list">
+                <value>kn-IN</value>
+            </prop>
+        </node>
+        <node oor:name="HyphDic_kn_IN" oor:op="fuse">
+            <prop oor:name="Locations" oor:type="oor:string-list">
+                <value>%origin%/hyph_kn_IN.dic</value>
+            </prop>
+            <prop oor:name="Format" oor:type="xs:string">
+                <value>DICT_HYPH</value>
+            </prop>
+            <prop oor:name="Locales" oor:type="oor:string-list">
+                <value>kn-IN</value>
+            </prop>
+        </node>
+    </node>
+</node>
+</oor:component-data>