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The Kannada script is an Abugida of the Brahmic Family 1, primarily to write the Kannada Language , one of the Dravidian languages in India . It is also used for Konkani , Tulu , Beary Bashe and Kodava languages. GENERAL The script has forty-nine characters in its Alphasyllabary and is Phonemic . The Kannada character set is almost identical to that of other Indian Languages . The number of written symbols, however, is far more than the 49 characters in the alphasyllabary, because different characters can be combined to form ''compound'' characters ''(ottaksharas)''. Each written symbol in the Kannada script corresponds with one Syllable , as opposed to one Phoneme in languages like English . The Kannada writing system is an Abugida , with consonants appearing with an inherent vowel. The characters are classified into three categories: swaras ( Vowel s), vyanjanas ( Consonant s) and yogavaahas (part vowel, part consonants). ''Note: Unicode character entities used below. You will need a font that supports Kannada to see the characters. English transliterations based on Unicode character names listed next to symbol.'' VOWELS There are thirteen vowels (''swaras''): ಅ (a), ಆ (aa), ಇ (e), ಈ (ee), ಉ (u), ಊ (uu), ಋ (rr), ಎ (a~), ಏ (ea), ಐ (ai), ಒ (o), ಓ (oo), ಔ (ou) YOGAVAAHAS The yogavaahas (part-vowel, part consonant) include two letters: # The anusvara: ಂ (am) # The visarga: ಃ (ah) CONSONANTS Two types of consonants are identified in Kannada: the ''structured consonants'' and the ''unstructured consonants''. The structured consonants are classified according to where the tongue touches the palate of the mouth and are classified accordingly into five structured groups. ]] Structured consonants See Place Of Articulation for more information on tongue positions. Unstructured consonants The unstructured consonants are consonants that do not fall into any of the above structures: ಯ (ya), ರ (ra), ಲ (la), ವ (va), ಶ (sha), ಷ (shha) ಸ (sa), ಹ (ha), ಳ (lla) NUMBERS The decimal numbers in the script are: ೦ (0), ೧ (1), ೨ (2), ೩ (3), ೪ (4), ೫ (5), ೬ (6), ೭ (7), ೮ (8), ೯ (9) KANNADA KAGUNITA
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