mirror of
				https://github.com/symbl-cc/symbl-data.git
				synced 2025-11-03 14:03:19 -05:00 
			
		
		
		
	
		
			
				
	
	
		
			3 lines
		
	
	
		
			971 B
		
	
	
	
		
			Plaintext
		
	
	
	
	
	
			
		
		
	
	
			3 lines
		
	
	
		
			971 B
		
	
	
	
		
			Plaintext
		
	
	
	
	
	
Kannada is a Unicode block containing characters for the Kannada and Tulu 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. The [BLOCK:devanagari], [BLOCK:bengali], [BLOCK:gujarati], [BLOCK:gurmukhi], [BLOCK:oriya], [BLOCK:tamil], [BLOCK:telugu], and [BLOCK:malayalam] blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
The Kannada alphabet is an abugida of the Brahmic family, used primarily to write the Kannada language, one of the Dravidian languages of southern India. Several minor languages, such as Tulu, Konkani, Kodava, and Beary, also use alphabets based on the Kannada script. The Kannada and [BLOCK:telugu] scripts share high mutual intellegibility with each other, and are often considered to be regional variants of single script. Similarly, Goykanadi, a variant of Old Kannada, has been historically used to write Konkani in the state of Goa. |