Origin Evolved from the early Kadamba script, itself from Ashokan Brahmi; the Kannada and Telugu scripts separated by around 1300 C.E.
The Kannada script is an abugida of the Brahmic family, used to write Kannada, one of the Dravidian languages of South India, especially in the state of Karnataka. It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic and is also widely used for writing Sanskrit texts in Karnataka, and several minor languages, such as Tulu, Konkani, Kodava, Beary and Sanketi, use alphabets based on it. The article describes the script, or the early Kadamba script, as having evolved from the Ashokan Brahmi script, and says the Kannada and Telugu scripts share very high mutual intelligibility. In this atlas it sits in the Brahmic script family beside Brahmi and Tibetan.
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Origin PeriodEvolved from the early Kadamba script, itself from Ashokan Brahmi; the Kannada and Telugu scripts separated by around 1300 C.E. 1 Script type (class) Connections
Originates in Language
Source Kannada script (Wikipedia)
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Kannada is written in the Kannada script.
Source Kannada (Wikipedia)
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1. Kannada script (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationKannada script, lead paragraph
is an abugida of the Brahmic family, used to write Kannada, one of the Dravidian languages of South India especially in the state of Karnataka.
Kannada script, article text
Kannada script or the early Kadamba script evolved from the Ashokan Brahmi script
View the Source Kannada (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationScript Of: Kannada, Kannada, lead paragraphQuote, Script Of: Kannada, Kannada, lead paragraph
Kannada is written using the Kannada script, which evolved from the 5th-century Kadamba script.
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