Editing Kannada script (section)

==History==
Kannada script or the early [[Kadamba script]] evolved from the Ashokan Brahmi script,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Thakur |first1=Aksheev |title=How king Ashoka scripted Kannada to glory |url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/in-other-news/281017/how-king-ashoka-scripted-kannada-to-glory.html |date=28 Oct 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Language Atlas of India 2011 |date=April 2022 |url=https://language.census.gov.in/map/data/viewFlipBook?book_type=Atlas&folder_name=2011&title=Language%20Atlas%202011#page/54/mode/1up}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=History of the Kannada Script and Language |url=https://bangaloreliteraturefestival.org/history-kannada-script-language/}}</ref> which later evolved into [[Telugu-Kannada script|Kannada-Telugu script]], during the period of [[Chalukya dynasty|Chalukyas]] and later [[Eastern Chalukyas|Chalukyas of Vengi]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=New Delhi |first1=All India Radio |title=AKASHVANI Vol. XXX, No. 33 ( 15 AUGUST, 1965 ) |date=15 August 1965 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/AKASHVANI/ie7zDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Telugu-Kannada+chalukyas&pg=PA4&printsec=frontcover}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Encyclopedia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kannada-language}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Diringer |first1=David |title=Alphabet a key to the history of mankind |date=1948 |page=381}}</ref> The Kannada and Telugu scripts then separated by around 1300 C.E.<ref name=epigraphy>Indian Epigraphy: a guide to the study of inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan languages, by Richard Solomon, Oxford University Press, 1998, p.41, {{ISBN|0-19-509984-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=R |first1=Narasimhacharya |title=History of Kannada Language |date=1934 |page=50 |url=https://archive.org/details/HistoryKannadaLanguage/page/n61/mode/1up?view=theater}}</ref>

The 11th-century Persian scholar and polymath [[Al-Biruni]] calls the Kannada script as ''Karnata'' alphabets used in ''[[Karnataka|Karnatadesa]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ahmad |first1=Qeyamuddin |title=India by Al-Biruni |date=1983 |page=30 |url=https://archive.org/details/india-by-al-biruni-qeyamuddin-ahmad/page/n27/mode/1up?view=theater}}</ref>

Over the centuries some changes have been made to the Kannada script. These changes consist of:
# Modification of existing glyphs: In the early Kannada script, no orthographic distinction was made between the short mid {{IPA|[e, o]}} {{lang|kn|ಎ}}, {{lang|kn|ಒ}} and long mid {{IPA|[eː, oː]}} {{lang|kn|ಏ}}, {{lang|kn|ಓ}}. However, distinct signs were employed to denote the special consonants viz. the trill {{IPA|[r]}} {{lang|kn|ಱ}} the retroflex lateral {{IPA|[ɭ]}} {{lang|kn|ಳ}} and the retroflex rhotic {{IPA|[ɻ]}} {{lang|kn|ೞ}}, by the 5th century.{{dubious|date=August 2015}}{{fix|text=the transcriptions contradict themselves}}