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The whole book Raajendraname was printed using a simpler orthographic form invented by Mögling himself. [1] The Kannada language uses double consonants frequently, which Mögling felt was difficult for children to learn easily and also to print (since a blank line between two print lines was necessitated to print the double consonant ...
A pioneer who standardised Kannada keyboard was K. P. Rao who modified the existing English QWERTY keyboard layout to suit the needs of the Kannada language. [3] The entire set of Kannada characters could now be printed using the 26 alphabet keys on the English keyboard. [2] After few modifications, this keyboard was announced as the standard ...
The Kannada language is written using the Kannada script, which evolved from the 5th-century Kadamba script. Kannada is attested epigraphically for about one and a half millennia and literary Old Kannada flourished during the 9th-century Rashtrakuta Empire. [13] [14] Kannada has an unbroken literary history of around 1200 years. [15]
Kinnikambala Padmanabha Rao (born 29 February 1940) is a retired professor at Manipal Institute of Technology.Commonly known as K. P. Rao, he is credited with the development of the Kannada keyboard [2] and software to use Kannada language on computers, thereby effectively paving the way for the expansion of the use of other Indian languages in software.
The Kannada script is an abugida, where when a vowel follows a consonant, it is written with a diacritic rather than as a separate letter. There are also three obsolete vowels, corresponding to vowels in Sanskrit. Written Kannada is composed of akshara or kagunita, corresponding to syllables. The letters for consonants combine with diacritics ...
W. John (or John W.) Weilgart - Austrian-born American psychoanalyst and philosopher; creator of the philosophical language aUI and its writing system. John Wilkins - English academic. Invented the so-called 'real character' as a writing system for a proposed Philosophical language in 1668. John Willis - English, invented a system of shorthand ...
The inscription is written in pre-old Kannada (Puruvada-hala Kannada), which later evolved into old Kannada, middle Kannada and eventually modern Kannada. [13] The Halmidi inscription is the earliest evidence of the usage of Kannada as an administrative language. [14]
He is most famous for his studies of the Kannada language and for producing a Kannada-English dictionary of about 70,000 words in 1894. [1] [5] (Many Kannada-language dictionaries had existed at least since poet Ranna's 'Ranna Khanda' in the tenth century.) Kittel also composed numerous Kannada poems. [2]