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	Kannada alphabet, pronunciation and language
		The Kannada alphabet developed from the Kadamba and Cālukya scripts, descendents of Brahmi which were used between the 5th and 7th centuries AD.
		Kannada is a alphasyllabary in which all consonants have an inherent vowel.
		Ahom, Balinese, Batak, Bengali, Brahmi, Buhid, Burmese, Cham, Dehong Dai/Tai Le, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Grantha, Gujarati, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Hanuno'o, Hmong, Javanese, Kannada, Kharosthi, Khmer, Lanna, Lao, Lepcha, Limbu, Lontara/Makasar, Malayalam, Manpuri, Modi, Oriya, Phags-pa, Ranjana, Redjang, Sharda, Siddham, Sinhala, Sorang Sompeng, Sourashtra, Soyombo, Syloti Nagri, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tai Dam, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tocharian, Varang Kshiti
	www.omniglot.com /writing/kannada (275 words)

	Kannada language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kannada is a highly inflected language with three genders (masculine, feminine, neutral or common) and two numbers (singular, plural).
		Kannada is mainly spoken in Karnataka in India, and to a good extent in the neighbouring states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and in Kerala.
		Kannada is one of the 22 official languages of India and is the official language of the state of Karnataka.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kannada (873 words)

	Kannada language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Kannada - aptly described as 'sirigannada' (known to few as Kanarese) is one of the oldest (A large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka) Dravidian languages and is spoken in its various dialects by roughly 45 million people.
		Kannada is mainly spoken in (State in southern India; formerly Mysore) Karnataka in (A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947) India, and to a lesser extent in the neighbouring states.
		Kannada is one of the 22 official languages of India and is the state official language of the state of (State in southern India; formerly Mysore) Karnataka.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/K/Ka/Kannada_language.htm (585 words)

	Kannada language: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Kannada language
		Kannada is one of the oldest Dravidian languages and is spoken in its various dialects by roughly 45 million people.
		The language has 52 characters in its alphabet and is phonetic, but cannot represent all phonemes.
		The script itself, which resembles the Telugu script, is fairly complicated like most other languages of India owing to the occurrence of various combinations of "half-letters", or symbols that attach to various letters in a manner similar to the aigue, grave, and cédille marks in Romance languages.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ka/Kannada-alphabet.html (392 words)

	Kannada
		Kannada (also known as Kanarese, Canarese, and Madrassi) is one of the 22 official languages of India.
		Kannada is a highly inflected language with a grammar that is similar to that of Tamil.
		Kannada is written with a syllabic alphabet in which all consonants have an inherent vowel that can be changed to another vowel or suppressed by the use of diacritics.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/april/Kannada.html (484 words)

	Kannada script -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The (A Dravidian language spoken in southern India) Kannada character set is almost identical to that of other (additional info and facts about Indian languages) Indian languages.
		The Kannada writing system is an (additional info and facts about abugida) abugida, with consonants appearing with an inherent vowel.
		The is classified into three categories: swaras (or (A speech sound made with the vocal tract open) vowels), vyanjanas (or (A speech sound that is not a vowel) consonants) and yogavaahas (part vowel/part consonants).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/kannada_script.htm (489 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kannada language
		Jump to: navigation, search The Kannada script is an abugida of the Brahmic family, primarily to write the Kannada language, one of the Dravidian languages in India.
		Arebhashe or Gowda Kannada is a dialect of the Kannada language, particularly, spoken by the people belonging to ‘Gowda’ community (among Hindus) who are the natives of Sullia and Bhagamandala of Dakshina Kannada and Coorg districts, respectively and also eastern parts of Kasaragod district of Kerala state.
		Kannada poetry is poetry written in the Kannada language spoken in Karnataka state of India.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kannada-language (2386 words)

	Kannada language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Notable of them are Kodava (spoken in Coorg district), Kunda (spoken exclusively in Kundapura), Havyaka (spoken mainly by Havyaka Brahmanas of Dakshina Kannada, Uttara Kannada, Shimoga, Sagara, and Udupi districts), Are Bhashe (spoken mainly in Sullia region of Dakshina Kannada), Soliga Kannada, Badaga Kannada, Gulbarga Kannada, Hubli Kannada, etc.
		Kannada is mainly spoken in Karnataka in India, and to a lesser extent in the neighbouring states.
		There are significant Kannada speaking populations in the United States and the United Kingdom, and to a lesser extent in Canada.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Kannada (590 words)

	Kannada language - TheBestLinks.com - Dravidian languages, English language, Ethnologue, India, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Kannada, Kannada language, Dravidian languages, English language, Ethnologue...
		Kannada (also known formerly as Kanarese) is one of the oldest Dravidian languages and is spoken in its various dialects by roughly 45 million people.
		There are significant Kannada speaking populations in the United States and the UK.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Kannada.html (436 words)

	Description of the Kannada Language
		Kannada is a south Indian language spoken in Karnataka state of India.Kannada is originated from the Dravidian Language.
		Kannada script rendering software must be able to map appropriate combinations of characters in context to the appropriate conjunct glyphs in fonts.
		The order for storage of plain text in Kannada generally follows the phonetic order, that is, a CV syllable with a dependant vowel is always encoded as a consonant letter C followed by a vowel sign V in the memory representation.
	brahmi.sourceforge.net /docs/KannadaComputing.html (2782 words)

	ಕನ್ನಡ ವರ್ಣಮಾಲೆ (The kannaDa Alphabet)
		The kannaDa alphabet has 49 or 50 or 51 letters, depending on who you ask, and which rules you follow.
		We also show how one could write kannaDa letters using English script, using a transliteration scheme (the word 'kannaDa' is spelled using this scheme throughout this page).
		kannaDa has 13 or 14 (we show 14) vowels (the first 14 shown).
	www.cs.pdx.edu /~smurthy/kannaDa/warNamAle.htm (457 words)

	Telugu alphabet, pronunciation and language
		The Telugu alphabet is an descendant of the Brahmi script of ancient India.
		It is closely related to the Kannada alphabet.
		This is a syllabic alphabet in which all consonants have an inherent vowel.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/telugu.htm (246 words)

	Kannada fonts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Baraha Kan New (1998) is a free Kannada font by Vasu from Bangalore.
		Kannada developed from the early Brahmi alphabet and is closely related to Telugu.
		This syllabic alphabet (also called Canarese) is the official language of the southern Indian state of Karnataka, and is spoken by about 27 million people.
	cgm.cs.mcgill.ca /~luc/kannada.html (1502 words)

	Language in India
		Kannada spoken by the child may not be grammatical from the available written standard.
		The next step shall be to teach the child the Kannada alphabet with the help of pictures and develop the skills of recognition, observation, and expression using both traditional methods or shape similarity.
		The aim of linking home language with school language in respect of Kannada is to prepare the child to study the textbooks on various subjects through the Kannada medium of instruction as the child grows up and goes to higher classes.
	www.languageinindia.com /aug2004/kannadamothertongue2.html (1946 words)

	Kannada Language
		Kannada: It is spoken in the state of Karnataka in South India.
		Kannada has the orthographic syllable consisting of a consonant and vowel (CV) core and optionally, one or more preceding consonants with a canonical structure.
		Kannada Language History: The spoken Kannada language originated from the Halmidi inscription in 450 A.D. in the southern Bramhi lipi of Ashoka period of 9th century A.D. Pampa and Ranna were famous poets.
	www.online-languagetranslators.com /kannada_language.htm (229 words)

	Kannada Saahitya PuTa
		Kannada kali Great way to learn kannada, especially for kids.
		I am happy to see increasing presence of Kannada on the www.
		Kannada kali kannaDa maastar on the WWW (with images and audio)
	www.cs.toronto.edu /~kulki/kannada/kanindex.html (99 words)

	Kannada language -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		The alphabet of Kannada is closely related to that of the Telugu language (q.v.
		The earliest records in Kannada are inscriptions dating from the 6th century AD onward.
		Nearly all of the extant early texts in Kannada are poems on religious...
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9044578?tocId=9044578 (726 words)

	Singapore Ink. » “Dialects” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The 18 major languages of India are distinct in alphabets, vocabulary and mutual intelligibility.
		In 2003 I went to a town in Karnataka as part of a YEP where everyone in the slum we visited spoke Kannada and a little Hindi (it’s taught in school), so we had to rely a lot on partner volunteers from a local NGO.
		Those volunteers were all studying pharmacy or nursing in the town; one of them, I got to know, came from Maharashtra to the north, so he could speak Marathi, Kannada, a bit of Hindi (no doubt from school and the influence of Bollywood) and English.
	www.djourne.net /singaporeink/index.php/archives/2005/08/24/dialects (614 words)

	The Hindu : Kannada@cyberspace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		He discovered that the couple of very expensive Kannada software that existed (more expensive than operating systems themselves) were extremely complicated, and had no user interface.
		The clueless father, Chandrashekaran, who, out of sheer love for Kannada, has been buying and circulating Kannada books among those interested for over 55 years now, was happy that his son was doing something for his beloved language.
		This ardent fan of Anakru, one of the pioneers of the Kannada movement who fought tooth and nail the various language hegemonies, has spearheaded a cyber Kannada movement.
	www.baraha.com /newspapers/hindu_baraha60.htm (1012 words)

	Kannada script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kannada script is an abugida of the Brahmic family, primarily to write the Kannada language, one of the Dravidian languages in India.
		The script has 49 characters in its alphasyllabary and is phonemic.
		Indian Language Converter - Transliterate from Romanised to Unicode Kannada
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kannada_alphabet (448 words)

	Wikipedia:Kannada Support/Learn Kannada - Wikipedia
		This page has been started to collaborate on "Learning Kannada" document which on completion can be shifted over to wikibooks.
		Since the kannada community is much concentrated on the wikipedia, let us collaborate on kannada wikipedia itself.
		Here are some ideas (some based on German tutorials) for a Kannada learning book.
	kn.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Kannada_Support/Learn_Kannada (450 words)

	Introduction to the Sinhalese writing system
		Sinhalese is one of the two major languages spoken in Sri Lanka (Ceylon), the second being Tamil.
		Sinhalese script is a South-Indian script, close to Malayalam and Kannada.
		The alphabet consists of 18 vowels and 35 consonants.
	www-texdev.ics.mq.edu.au /l2h/indic/Sinhala/lreport/node2.html (338 words)

	Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural: Dravidian: Kannada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Kannada is the majority language of the Indian state of Karnataka, with around 40 million speakers.
		KannaDa Saahitya PuTa · cached · Kannada alphabet explained with pictures and sound; links to Kannada pages.
		Description of the Kannada Language · cached · An account of the script and writing system of the language, also with details of unicode fonts.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=671 (79 words)

	The Hindu : Exhibition of line drawings opened
		Activism, theatre and poetry, especially Kannada poetry, are critical influences.
		Letters from the Kannada alphabet inscribe many of his fluid open drawings.
		Vasudev attributes this to his closeness to Kannada literature and the seamless way in which letters blend with the rest of the drawing.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2004/03/14/stories/2004031409360300.htm (328 words)

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		Kurdish Cyrillic alphabet - алфаба к'ӧрди (alfaba ḳurdī)
	geonames.de /alphkl.html (265 words)

	Kannada English translation Services, High quality Kannada translations by Kannada translators. Kannada web site ...
		Indian Translators' Kannada translation teams are professional linguists performing translation from English to Kannada and Kannada to English for a variety of documents including legal, medical, technical, informational, and marketing.
		Hindi, i, Kannada, Urdu and many other languages of India are commonly used in business environments by more than a billion people around the world, including the people of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Mauritius, Trinidad, Fiji, Surinam, Guyana, South Africa, USA, UK, U.A.E., Canada, France, Switzerland and Germany.
		We translate Kannada translation all your documents, of any length from and into English, Spanish, German, French,, Kannada and Russian, into and from English, Hindi and among other languages.
	www.indiantranslator.com /kannadatranslationservice.html (1025 words)

	MavicaNET - Kannada
		Kannada is the language predominant in the state of Karnataka in India.
		In this special feature at Kamat's Potpourri, Dr. Kamat who is an authority on medieval and ancient Kannada literature, traces the history of the Kannada Language.
		First regional language literary journal which is wholly dedicated to the promotion of Kannada language and literature.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/deu/1921.html (231 words)

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		Description:Information about the Kannada alphabet and language, which is spoken in southern
		Description:Sify kannada is the most interesting portal in kannada.
		Our special focus is on kannada news, cinema, breaking news,...
	www.euroseek.net /query?iflang=uk&query=Kannada&domain=world&lang=world (121 words)

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