Kannada alphabet
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Kannada alphabet

The Kannada script (IAST: "Kannaḍa lipi") is an abugida of the Brahmic family, used primarily to write the Kannada language, one of the Dravidian languages of South India especially in the state of Karnataka, Kannada script is 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. The Kannada and Telugu scripts share high mutual intellegibility with each other, and are often considered to be regional variants of single script. Other scripts similar to Kannada script are Sinhala script (which included some elements from the Kadamba script), and Old Peguan script
(used in Burma).

The Kannada script ( "akṣaramāle" or "varṇamāle") is a phonemic abugida of forty-nine letters, and is written from left to right. 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 "(" "ottakṣara)" when there is no intervening vowel. Otherwise, each letter corresponds to a syllable.

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

The Kannada words for a letter of the script are "akshara", "akkara", and "varṇa". Each letter has its own form ( "ākāra") and sound ( "śabda"), providing the visible and audible representations, respectively. Kannada is written from left to right.

The Kannada script derives from the Old Kannada script, which evolved around 10th century as the continuation of the Kadamba alphabet of the fourth century. This evolved from the ancient Brahmi script of the third century BCE.
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