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  Kannada language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
The script itself, derived from brahmi 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 diacritical marks (such as aigüe, grave, and cédille marks) in the Romance languages.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kannada_language   (863 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Kannada language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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)

  
 ISV: Information by Language
Belonging to the group of Southern Indic scripts, Kannada script is used in the Indian state of Karnataka for writing the Kannada language, a member of the Dravidian group of languages.
Kannada is written horizontally from left to right and its basic set of symbols consists of 35 consonants and 14 vowels.
In Kannada script, the inherent vowel of a syllable is sup-pressed by a virama which is a small superscript mark on the syllable.
www.monotypeimaging.com /isv/wt_info.asp?lan=kannada&print=true   (346 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.
The Kannada character set is almost identical to that of other Indian languages.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kannada_alphabet   (438 words)

  
 Kannada - Wikibooks
Kannada is the official language of the state of Karnataka in India.
Kannada is a Dravidian language, and it enjoys a common ancestry with the neighbouring Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam languages.
Although the Kannada country was politically fragmented for several hundred years after the decline of the Vijayanagara empire, a substantial portion of southern Karnataka was encompassed by the Kingdom of Mysore, ruled by a Kannada-speaking dynasty, the Wodeyars.
en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Kannada   (692 words)

  
 Kannada language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Kannada language has been spoken for about 2500 years, with the Kannada writing system being in use for about the last 1900 years.
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)

  
 Yakshagana
Hence, it is a script evolved in Tulu area, that was later adopted for Malayalam.
Hence it is Tulu script, and not Malayalam script nor Tulu-Malayalam script.
Because of the use of Kannada for Tulu by German missionaries, the use of Tulu script declined.
www.yakshagana.com /Tululipi.htm   (710 words)

  
 Kannada script -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The (A Dravidian language spoken in southern India) Kannada character set is almost identical to that of other (Click link for more info and facts about Indian languages) Indian languages.
The Kannada writing system is an (Click link for more 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   (462 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kannada is a Dravidian language spoken primarily in Karnataka State in South India, and has a literature that dates from the ninth century.
Kannada is written with its own script, which is similar to the script used also for Telugu.
The Kannada script is also used for writing Tulu.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /plc/kannada   (125 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
History of Kannada Language Kannada is a south Indian language spoken in Karnataka state of India.Kannada is originated from the Dravidian Language.
In Kannada, there is only one type of conjunct formation (consonant cluster) and it is depicted as follows: The first consonant of the consonant cluster is rendered with the implicit or a different dependant vowel appearing as the terminal element of the consonant cluster.
Kannada script rendering software must be able to map appropriate combinations of characters in context to the appropriate conjunct glyphs in fonts.
brahmi.sourceforge.net /docs/KannadaComputing.doc   (2550 words)

  
 The Hindu : Karnataka / Hassan News : Political differences hit Halmidi memorial
The memorial constructed by the Kannada Sahitya Parishat's (KSP) district unit was to be inaugurated last November.
The etymology of the words "Kannada" and "Karnataka" continues to be debated although inscriptions from the Christian era have been found in the State.
Kannada publications such as "Prabhuddha Karnataka," "Manavika Karnataka," "Kannada Sahitya Parishat Patrike," and "Kannada Nudi" have published articles and "Epigraphia Karnataka" has dedicated a chapter to the study of the inscription.
www.hinduonnet.com /2004/08/14/stories/2004081403000300.htm   (525 words)

  
 Indus Script and Telugu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
All the current Indian scripts including the Telugu script have descended from the braahmee which was inspired, at least partly by the Aramaic and other western scripts.
That is the reason for the combined Telugu-Kannada script to have been called as the "old Kannada." This in turn does not mean that Telugu people were non-literate during the periods when Kannada and Tamil people were producing works of literature.
An Encylopaedia of the Indus Script" published in the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum, Jan. 1997) is a review of Asko Parpola's encyclopedic work "Deciphering the Indus Script." Mahadevan himself carried out a major study of the Indus seals and prepared a major study and concordance of Indus seals and characters.
www.geology.ohio-state.edu /~bhattiprolu/personal/telugu/script1a.html   (1779 words)

  
 Yakshagana
Though the subject of Tulu script is found to be controversial, it is very clearly proved by scholars, who are will versed in Tulu and Malayalam language and literature, that it is the Tuluvas who contributed a script for Malayalam which has no script until the Tulu Brahmins’ arrival in Kerala.
Predominance of the Kannada language, lack of public instruction in Tulu language etc. are some of the reasons for the Tulu script to lag behind.
Century and their trial of printing the Tulu writings in Kannada script is the major reason for the Tulu script to go behind the scenes.
www.yakshagana.com /tulu.htm   (717 words)

  
 Indian Languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Most of the Indian languages have their own script and are spoken in the respective states along with English.
Kannada: It is the state language of Karnataka and is spoken by 65 percent of the state's population.
Kashmiri: It is a language written in both Persio-Arabic and Devnagri script and is spoken by 55 percent of the population of Jammu and Kashmir.
www.indiainvitation.com /heritages/languages.html   (888 words)

  
 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.
Under the influence of Christian missionary organizations, Kannada and Telugu scripts were standardized at the beginning of the 19th century.
Kannada is a alphasyllabary in which all consonants have an inherent vowel.
www.omniglot.com /writing/kannada.htm   (220 words)

  
 Script Override   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Script Override menu) is a very useful feature, using which, you can read the text of one Indian language script in another Indian language script.
Some scripts don't have characters that are in the other scripts.
Script Override is useful for learning new scripts.
www.baraha.com /html_help/baraha/script_override.htm   (399 words)

  
 Kannada Computing Information (Penn State)
Kannada is a syllabic alphabet in that it consists of consonants with vowel signs.
See the Unicode chart for Kannada to see OS X Hex codes, Windows XP ALT codes and HTML entity codes.Note that the correct Unicode font must be installed in order for the codes to work.
Unless a keyboard which supports Unicode is installed, you must use the Unicode chart for Kannada and enter HTML entity codes.
tlt.its.psu.edu /suggestions/international/bylanguage/kannada.html   (863 words)

  
 The Hindu : Karnataka News : Kannada script to be used for Konkani textbooks in schools
In all, 121 representatives, including one representative each from Konkani associations, institutions and Konkani newspapers, all past and present members of the academy as well as winners of awards instituted by it were sounded out for their opinion on the issue.
Of these, 44 opted for the Kannada script, 19 for the Devanagari script, two for the Roman script and two were not clear about their choice.
Noting that 65.67 percent of the respondents had opted for the Kannada script, he said only 28.36 percent had opted for the Devanagari script, 2.98 percent for the Roman script and 2.98 per cent were undecided.
www.hindu.com /2005/05/31/stories/2005053104180400.htm   (459 words)

  
 Personal info for derupe
The reson for this is the use of various different scripts for the language - based on the regions where its spoken.
Its written in Roman and Nagari scripts in Goa, Kannada script in Karnataka, Malayalam script in Kerala.
This script is the result of their research in of number of years.
www.advogato.org /person/derupe   (841 words)

  
 kannada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is an attempt to survey the state of the art technology in computing using the Kannada language.
ISCII is a super set of all Indic scripts, which (almost) covers all the vagaries of Indic scripts (but it's hard to satisfy everyone, so you'll see occassional complaints on this matter).
The advantage of unicode is that many many scripts of the world can be represented in a single page of text, because each script gets it's own range of numbers in the unicode code space.
www.sharma-home.net /people/adsharma/languages/kannada   (927 words)

  
 Konkani script row: Cultural bond comes to the fore - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kannada writers consider the attempts to replace Devanagari as script for Konkani as a ploy to undermine cultural harmony between Kannada and Konkani.
An interesting debate on the appropriate script for Konkani language has started off in the literary circles of coastal and malnad Karnataka, in the wake of alleged attempts to impose Devanagari as a uniform script for the language.
However, the absence of a universally accepted script is proving to be a stumbling block in their endeavour.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/may162005/state1930592005515.asp   (711 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
OCR of machine printed kannada characters is one of the most difficult work due to the presence of ascenders(top matras), bottom conjuncts and right matras.
Kannada script has 14 vowels, 34 consonants and 10 numerals.
In kannada also there are lots of similar characters.
www.ee.iisc.ernet.in /new/people/faculty/kasi/abstracts/vkb_abs.html   (139 words)

  
 Kannada software
Vyasamoorthy, P ====================== Baraha, the First, Free, Practical solution for Kannada D.T.P. Welcome dear kannadigas, 'Baraha' is a transliteration software which converts 'Kannada written in English' (i call this as Kanglish) to Kannada script.
More than one Indian language script can be used at the same time (if the plugin is available for that language) New languages can be added as plugins.
Baraha is developed with an intention to provide a free Kannada D.T.P. software with the very basic features, to enable kannadigas to use Kannada in the cyberworld.
ces.iisc.ernet.in /hpg/envis/doc98html/softkan1231.html   (1488 words)

  
 Tulu Language : Its Script and Dialects by Neria Harish Hebbar, MD
However, Tulu language with its near extinct script has been generating much enthusiasm amongst the linguists, as it is now believed to be one of the oldest Dravidian languages.
Perhaps the reciprocal is true that the Malayalam script developed from Tulu script as the language predates Malayalam by more than a thousand years.
Printing material in the Kannada script led to further disuse of the original Tulu script.
www.boloji.com /places/0020.htm   (841 words)

  
 Kannada - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
The Kannada script is used for the Kannada language (formerly known as Canarese), which belongs to the Dravidian group and is the majority language of the Indian State of Karnataka.
For users of Macintosh OS X 10.2, a commercial Kannada Language Kit with a Unicode font and 2 keyboard layouts is available from XenoType Technologies, and Nicholas Shanks has produced a free Kannada Font and Keyboard Layout.
The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
www.alanwood.net /unicode/kannada.html   (281 words)

  
 Indic Palm-leaf Manuscript
The language is Kannada and Sanskrit, possibly with Telugu or Marathi in some sections.
We can ask the Kannada scholars to see if they know of the original version of a similar manuscript in Kannada script.
The name Ramu Relesu seen at the end, could be the person who took it down in phonetically in Nandanagari script, as he heard it recited in Kannada.
www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/southasia/cuvl/indicmss/palm.html   (2877 words)

  
 Kannada fonts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Baraha Kan New (1998) is a free Kannada font by Vasu from Bangalore.
"KALE (KAnnada Lipi Enthusiasists) is a group of Kannada Font Enthusiasists, whose principal aim at this point of time is to realize a Kannada TeX so as to be able to typeset documents written in Kannada." KanTex was developed by G. Jagadeesh and Venkatesh P. Gopinath, an EECS professor at Berkeley.
Kannada developed from the early Brahmi alphabet and is closely related to Telugu.
jeff.cs.mcgill.ca /~luc/kannada.html   (1502 words)

  
 Kannada OpenType specification
The Kannada script is used to write the Kannadu language and is closely related to the Telugu script.
Registered features of Kannada scripts are defined and illustrated, encodings are listed, and templates are included for compiling Kannada layout tables for OpenType fonts.
In addition to being a primer and specification for the creation and support of Kannada fonts, this document is intended to more broadly illustrate the OpenType Layout architecture, feature schemes, and operating system support for shaping and positioning text.
www.microsoft.com /typography/otfntdev/kanadot   (245 words)

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