Her mother often tells her to be quiet, but her father prefers to let her talk, so she talks to him often. When they appear the the beginning of a syllable, vowels are written as independent letters.The story opens with the narrator talking about his precocious five-year-old daughter Mini, who learned how to talk within a year of being born and practically hadn’t stopped talking since.Other vowels are indicated with diacritics, which can appear above, below, before or after the consonants. Type of writing system: Abugida / Syllabic Alphabet, in which all consonants have an inherent vowel.Under the influence of Christian missionary organizations, Kannada and Telugu scripts were standardized at the beginning of the 19th century. These scripts developed into the Old Kannada script, which by about 1500 had morphed into the Kannada and Telugu scripts. The Kannada alphabet (ಕನ್ನಡ ಲಿಪಿ) developed from the Kadamba and Cālukya scripts, descendents of Brahmi, which were used between the 5th and 7th centuries AD. Poetry in Kannada started to appear in 700 AD, and literary works from 850 AD.įrom the 14th century Kannada was sometimes written with the Tigalari alphabet, which developed in the 12th century in Karnataka. The earliest known texts in Old Kannada were written in the Brahmi script and are dated at 450 AD. Kannada first appeared in writing as words in Tamil inscriptions dating from the 3rd-1st centuries BC. It is also known as Banglori, Canarese, Havyaka or Kanarese. Kannada is the official and administrative language of Karnataka, and was officially designated a classical language of India in 2011. In 2011 there were about 56.4 million speakers of Kannada, including 43 million native speakers. There are also Kannada speakers in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Goa and Kerala, and in the USA, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Kannada is a Southern Dravidian language spoken mainly in the state of Karnataka in the southwest of India.
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