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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 ...
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) ... Unicode chart Kannada}} provides a list of Unicode code points in the Kannada block. Usage
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.
Kannada is a Unicode block containing characters for the Kannada, Sanskrit, Konkani, Sankethi, Havyaka, Tulu and Kodava languages. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0C82..U+0CCD were a direct copy of the Kannada characters A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard .
Kannada alphabet (aksharamale or varnamale) now consists of 49 letters. [ 4 ] Each sound has its own distinct letter, and therefore every word is pronounced exactly as it is spelt; so the ear is a sufficient guide.
The Telugu–Kannada script (or Kannada–Telugu script) was a writing system used in Southern India. Despite some significant differences, the scripts used for the Telugu and Kannada languages remain quite similar and highly mutually intelligible. Satavahanas and Chalukyas influenced the similarities between Telugu and Kannada scripts. [3]
A modern jayamala ceremony during a Hindu wedding. A varamala (Sanskrit: वरमाला, romanized: Varamālā, lit. 'boon garland') [1] or a jayamala (Sanskrit ...
During (325 to 1000 AD) the rule of the Western Ganga dynasty in the southern parts of Karnataka the Kannada script used differently (also known as Ganga script) in rock edicts and copper plate inscriptions. During 6th to 10th century, the Telugu-Kannada alphabet stabilized during the rule of the Chalukyas of Badami from 500-1000 [7] and ...