Brahmic scripts
The Kannada script ( "akṣaramāle" or "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 "(" "ottakṣara)" when there is no intervening vowel. Otherwise, each letter corresponds to a syllable.