Kannada script

Kannada script
ಕನ್ನಡ ಲಿಪಿ
Kannada script; ಕನ್ನಡ ಲಿಪಿ
	A stanza from Kavirajamarga which praises the people for their literary skills, written in the Kannada script
Script type	Abugida
Time period	4th 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 Kannada script; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Child systems	Goykanadi
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 (ಅಕ್ಷರಮಾಲೆ akṣaramāle or ವರ್ಣಮಾಲೆ varṇamāle) 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 (ಒತ್ತಕ್ಷರ ottakṣara) when there is no intervening vowel. Otherwise, each letter corresponds to a syllable.

The letters are classified into three categories: ಸ್ವರ svara (vowels), ವ್ಯಂಜನ vyañjana (consonants), and ಯೋಗವಾಹಕ yōgavāhaka (semiconsonants).

The Kannada words for a letter of the script are ಅಕ್ಷರ akshara, ಅಕ್ಕರ akkara, and ವರ್ಣ varṇa. Each letter has its own form (ಆಕಾರ ākāra) and sound (ಶಬ್ದ śabda), 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

[2] "Shivamogga engraving shows Kannada was in use 7 decades earlier than known". 29 August 2017.

[3] "Kannada Language". 12 March 2017.

[goy-4] Ghantkar, Gajanana (1993). History of Goa through Gõykanadi script (in English, Konkani, Marathi, and Kannada). pp. Page x.

[5] 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.

[konkani1-6] Cardona, George; Jain, Dhanesh (2007). The Indo-Aryan Languages. Routledge. pp. 804, 805. ISBN 978-0-415-77294-5.

[7] 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.

[8] "Romanization, Sinhala (Sinhalese) Script" (PDF). KAMALAKAR. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 7 May 2009.

[9] "Ancient scripts, hala". Retrieved 7 May 2009.

[10] "Telugu & Sinhalese script similarities". Retrieved 7 May 2009.

[F._Kittel,_A_Grammar_of_the_Kannada_Language,_p_5-11] A Grammar of the Kannada Language. F. Kittel (1993), p. 5

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Kannada script ಕನ್ನಡ ಲಿಪಿ
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
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.