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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Old Kannada — 1100 AD, India
Old Kannada, also called Halegannada, Proto-Kannada, and Old Karanese, developed from Kadamba. It has evolved into present-day Kannada and Telugu, but has a couple of characters which are no longer used, including “rra” (shown illustrating this posting). Links: Wikipedia, Ancient … Continue reading
Kadamba — 400 AD, India
Kadamba derived from Bhattiprolu script, and was the ancestor of two more modern scripts, Kannada and Telugu. There is very little information about the script. It is even sometimes called “Pre-Old-Kannada script”, which just goes to show how little of … Continue reading