A Stanza from Kavirajamarga which praises the people for their literary skills, written in the Kannada script[note 1]
Script type
Abugida
Time period
4th[1] century CE – present
Direction
Left-to-right
Languages
Kannada Sanskrit Tulu Kodava Badaga Beary Sanketi Konkani Marathi
Related scripts
Parent systems
Egyptian
Proto-Sinaitic
Phoenician
Aramaic
Brahmi script
Kadamba alphabet
Kannada-Telugu alphabet[2]
Kannada script
Child systems
Goykanadi[3]
Sister systems
Telugu
ISO 15924
ISO 15924
Knda(345), Kannada
Unicode
Unicode alias
Kannada
Unicode range
U+0C80–U+0CFF
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The Kannada script (IAST: Kannaḍa lipi; obsolete: Kanarese or Canarese script in English) is an abugida of the Brahmic family,[4] used to write Kannada, one of the Dravidian languages of South India especially in the state of Karnataka. It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic. Kannada script is also widely used for writing Sanskrit texts in Karnataka. Several minor languages, such as Tulu, Konkani, Kodava, Sanketi and Beary, also use alphabets based on the Kannada script.[5] The Kannada and Telugu scripts share very high mutual intellegibility with each other,[6] and are often considered to be regional variants of single script. Other scripts similar to Kannada script are Sinhala script[7] (which included some elements from the Kadamba script[8]), and Old Peguan script
(used in Burma).[9]
The Kannada script (ಅಕ್ಷರಮಾಲೆakṣaramāle or ವರ್ಣಮಾಲೆvarṇamāle) is a phonemic abugida of forty-nine letters. The character set is almost identical to that of other Brahmic scripts. Consonantal letters imply an inherent vowel. Letters representing consonants are combined to form digraphs (ಒತ್ತಕ್ಷರottakṣara) when there is no intervening vowel. Otherwise, each letter corresponds to a syllable.
The letters are classified into three categories: ಸ್ವರsvara (vowels), ವ್ಯಂಜನvyañjana (consonants), and ಯೋಗವಾಹಕyōgavāhaka (semiconsonants).
The Kannada words for a letter of the script are ಅಕ್ಷರakshara, ಅಕ್ಕರakkara, and ವರ್ಣvarṇa. Each letter has its own form (ಆಕಾರākāra) and sound (ಶಬ್ದśabda), providing the visible and audible representations, respectively. Kannada is written from left to right.[10]
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^"Shivamogga engraving shows Kannada was in use 7 decades earlier than known". 29 August 2017.
^"Kannada Language". 12 March 2017.
^Ghantkar, Gajanana (1993). History of Goa through Gõykanadi script (in English, Konkani, Marathi, and Kannada). pp. Page x.
^Campbell, George L. (6 November 1997). Handbook of scripts and alphabets (1st ed.). Routledge, New York. pp. 84–5. ISBN 978-0-415-13715-7. OCLC 34473667.
^Cardona, George; Jain, Dhanesh (2007). The Indo-Aryan Languages. Routledge. pp. 804, 805. ISBN 978-0-415-77294-5.
^Hebbi, Chandravva; Mamatha, H. R.; Sahana, Y. S.; Dhage, Sagar; Somayaji, Shriram (2020). Singh, Pradeep Kumar; Panigrahi, Bijaya Ketan; Suryadevara, Nagender Kumar; Sharma, Sudhir Kumar; Singh, Amit Prakash (eds.). "A Convolution Neural Networks Based Character and Word Recognition System for Similar Script Languages Kannada and Telugu". Proceedings of ICETIT 2019. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Cham: Springer International Publishing: 306–317. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30577-2_26. ISBN 978-3-030-30577-2.
^"Romanization, Sinhala (Sinhalese) Script" (PDF). KAMALAKAR. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 7 May 2009.
^"Ancient scripts, hala". Retrieved 7 May 2009.
^"Telugu & Sinhalese script similarities". Retrieved 7 May 2009.
^A Grammar of the Kannada Language. F. Kittel (1993), p. 5
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