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The Sinhala script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāva), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhala language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit. [3]
Honnavar in Uttara Kannada District is known for its Samaveda manuscripts. Other manuscripts like Devi Mahatmyam, from the 15th century and two epic poems written in the 17th century, namely Sri Bhagavato and Kaveri have also been found in Tulu language.
Kannada (/ ˈ k ɑː n ə d ə, ˈ k æ n-/; [4] [5] ಕನ್ನಡ, IPA: [ˈkɐnːɐɖa]), formerly also known as Canarese, [6] is a classical Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states.
With the turn of the 20th century, B. M. Srikantaiah ('B. M. Sri'), regarded by some as the "Father of modern Kannada literature", [10] gave the call for writing originals in modern Kannada, emancipating the language from ancient courtly classics and stressing the need for the influence of English literature. This period can be considered a ...
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The works of Jain writers Adikavi Pampa, Sri Ponna and Ranna, collectively called the "three gems of Kannada literature", heralded the age of classical Kannada in the 10th century. [ 39 ] [ 57 ] Pampa, who wrote Adipurana in 941, is regarded as one of the greatest Kannada writers. [ 59 ]
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 ...
The Kadamba script is the first writing system devised specifically for writing Kannada and it was later adopted to write Telugu language [4].The Kadamba script is also known as Pre-Old-Kannada script. The Kadamba script is one of the oldest of the southern group of the Brahmi script.