Hi Sai.

Linguistic minority reservation is applicable for Tamil, Telugu,kodava and Tulu of karanataka origin and domicile candidates only provided he/she has studied in Karnataka for a period of ten years from first standard to qualifying examination and passed SSLC/10th or 2nd PUC/12th from Karanataka state.

If the issuing authority certificates is other than the Revenue Tahsildar , then an affidavit (to be typed on Rs.20 stamp paper) to that effect has to be compulsorily produced along with other certificates at the time of verification of documents.

For more insights please go through www.kea.kar.nic.in

Hope this helps.

For further queries feel free to ask.

Good luck!