Kadamba script
{{Short description|Historic abugida of South India}}
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{{Infobox Writing system
| name = Kadamba script
| type = Abugida
| sample = Sri-manarashi.jpg
| imagesize = 300
| time = 4–7th century CE{{cite book |last1=Diringer |first1=David |title=Alphabet a key to the history of mankind |date=1948 |page=381}}
| languages = Kannada
Telugu
Sanskrit
Konkani
| fam1 = Egyptian hieroglyphs
| fam2 = Proto-Sinaitic
| fam3 = Phoenician
| fam4 = Aramaic
| fam5 = Brahmi
| children = Kannada-Telugu alphabet, Goykanadi,{{cite web | url=https://www.omniglot.com/writing/goykanadi.htm | title=Goykanadi script }} Pyu script{{cite book | last=Aung-Thwin | first=Michael | title=The mists of Rāmañña: The Legend that was Lower Burma | edition=illustrated | publisher=University of Hawai'i Press | year=2005 | location=Honolulu | isbn=978-0-8248-2886-8}}
}}
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The Kadamba script is the first writing system devised specifically for writing Kannada, and Telugu language.{{cite book |last1=Diringer |first1=David |title=Alphabet a key to the history of mankind |date=1948 |page=381}} The Kadamba script is also known as Pre-Old-Kannada script.
The Kadamba script is one of the oldest scripts of the southern group of writing systems that developed from the ancient Brahmi script. By the 5th century CE it became distinct from other Brahmi variants and was used in what are now the South Indian states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. It evolved into the Kannada-Telugu script by the 10th century CE and was used to write the Kannada and Telugu languages.{{cite news
|url=https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/news/india/scripts-fading-away-with-time/articleshow/21534740.cms
|title=Scripts fading away with time
|access-date=2013-08-28
}} It is also distantly related to the Sinhala script.Jayarajan, Paul M. (1 January 1976). History of the Evolution of the Sinhala Alphabet. Colombo Apothecaries' Company, Limited.
History
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| header=Kadamba coinage
| image1 = Coin of Kadamba king Sri Manarashi.jpg
| caption1 = Coin of Kadamba king Sri Manarashi, name written in Kadamba script
| image2 = Sri-manarashi.jpg
| caption2 = Sri manarashi written in Kadamba script on Kadamba coin
| image3 = Coin of Kadamba king Sri Dosharashi.jpg
| caption3 = Coin of the Kadambas written in Kadamba script as sri dosharashi and other side Shri shashankaha
| image4 = Kannada legend of Sri-dosharashi.jpg
| caption4 = Sri dosharashi written in Kadamba script on Kadamba coin
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During the rule of Kadamba dynasty (325-550), major change in the Brahmi script resulted in the Kadamba Kannada script, letters were shorter and round in shape. During (325 to 1000 AD) the rule of the Western Ganga dynasty in the southern parts of Karnataka the Kannada script used differently (also known as Ganga script) in rock edicts and copper plate inscriptions.
During 6th to 10th century, the Telugu-Kannada alphabet stabilized during the rule of the Chalukyas of Badami from 500-1000{{cite book|last=Kipfer|first=Barbara Ann|author-link=Barbara Ann Kipfer|title=Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XneTstDbcC0C&pg=PA692|year=2000|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-306-46158-3|page=692}} and Rastrakutas.{{cn|date=August 2019}}
Inscriptions in Kadamba script
File:Copper plates NMND-9.JPG in 10th century AD]]
File:Kadamba inscription from Kerala.jpg (c. 5th-6th century CE) from Edakkal (northern Kerala)]]
- Gudnapur Inscription on 20-foot-long stone pillar written in Kadamba script{{cite news|author=Rajiv Ajjibal |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/monuments-crying-for-attention/article2719672.ece |title=Monuments crying for attention |newspaper=The Hindu |date=2011-12-16 |access-date=2014-03-13}}
- Copper plate inscriptions in Kadamba (Pre - Chalukya) script, Kadamba-Pallava script, Kannada-Telugu script are available at Chennai museum{{cite web|url=http://www.chennaimuseum.org/draft/gallery/01/07/copper2.htm |title=Government Museum Chennai |publisher=Chennaimuseum.org |access-date=2014-03-13}}
- Halmidi inscription
- Talagunda pillar inscription{{cite web|url=https://www.deccanherald.com/content/591046/kannada-inscription-talagunda-may-replace.html|title=Kannada inscription at Talagunda may replace Halmidi as oldest|date=12 January 2017|website=Deccan Herald}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://karnatakaitihasaacademy.org/karnataka-history/evolution-of-kannada-script/ Evolution of Kannada script]
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