{"id":521,"date":"2011-09-19T19:58:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T02:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2011-09-19T20:00:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T03:00:34","slug":"kannada-1300-ad-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/19\/kannada-1300-ad-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Kannada &#8212; 1300 AD, India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_522\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kannadaRka.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-522\" class=\"size-full wp-image-522\" title=\"kannadaRka\" src=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kannadaRka.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kannada &quot;rka&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Kannada evolved gradually from <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/18\/old-kannada-1000-ad-india\/\">Old Kannada<\/a>.\u00a0 As such, it is tricky to specify a date when Kannada split from Old Kannada; I&#8217;ve seen dates between 1100 AD (when the first differences appeared) to 1800 AD (when, under the influence of Christian missionaries, the script was standardized).<\/p>\n<p>Kannada, like most Indian scripts, is an abugida, with glyphs representing consonant+vowel &#8220;a&#8221;, with an extra diacritic decorating the consonant to change or omit the vowel.\u00a0 Kannada also has a large number of ligatures of consonant clusters, i.e. there are a lot of glyphs for a set of consonants with no intervening vowels.\u00a0 (&#8220;Stri&#8221; would be a consonant cluster in Latin script, for example.\u00a0 These ligatures\u00a0 are usually made in Kannada with what look like subscripts, as seen in the example glyph.<\/p>\n<p>Links: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kannada#Writing_system\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientscripts.com\/kannada.html\">Ancient Scripts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/kannada.htm\">Omniglot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprisingly, Kannada evolved gradually from Old Kannada.\u00a0 As such, it is tricky to specify a date when Kannada split from Old Kannada; I&#8217;ve seen dates between 1100 AD (when the first differences appeared) to 1800 AD (when, under the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/19\/kannada-1300-ad-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abugida","category-meh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}