Translation of Indian blade inscription

laEspadaAncha · 24th February 2012, 04:26 PM

FWIW, Kannada is my wife's mother tongue, and while she admittedly does not fluently read it, she did grow up speaking it and surrounded by the language...

In the 3 1/2 years I've lived in India - all but maybe six months cumulative in Karnataka - I found I mistook Dravidian scripts for one another as often as I got them right.

Here's a link to the syllabic characters of the Kannada alphabet:

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/kannada.htm

ETA: Considering there is an unquestionable similarity to at least a couple characters in the inscription, maybe another dialect or colloquial language that borrows from Kannada script, e.g., Konkani?

24th February 2012, 04:26 PM	#11
laEspadaAncha Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 608	FWIW, Kannada is my wife's mother tongue, and while she admittedly does not fluently read it, she did grow up speaking it and surrounded by the language... In the 3 1/2 years I've lived in India - all but maybe six months cumulative in Karnataka - I found I mistook Dravidian scripts for one another as often as I got them right. Here's a link to the syllabic characters of the Kannada alphabet: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/kannada.htm ETA: Considering there is an unquestionable similarity to at least a couple characters in the inscription, maybe another dialect or colloquial language that borrows from Kannada script, e.g., Konkani? Last edited by laEspadaAncha; 24th February 2012 at 04:39 PM.