Editing Kannada script (section)

=== Obsolete Kannada letters ===
[[File:Kannada-archaic-n.png|thumb|100px|alt=Archaic n in Kannada script .|Historical form of representing {{lang|kn|ನ್}} in Kannada script.]]
Kannada literary works employed the letters {{lang|kn|ಱ}} (transliterated '{{IAST|ṟ}}' or 'rh') and {{lang|kn|ೞ}} (transliterated '{{IAST|ḻ}}', 'lh' or 'zh'), whose manner of articulation most plausibly could be akin to those in present-day [[Malayalam]] and [[Tamil language|Tamil]]. The letters dropped out of use in the 12th and 18th centuries, respectively. Later Kannada works replaced 'rh' and 'lh' with {{lang|kn|ರ}} (ra) and {{lang|kn|ಳ}} (la) respectively.<ref name="kannada literature">Rice, Edward. P (1921), "A History of Kannada Literature", Oxford University Press, 1921: 14–15</ref>

It is still used to write the [[Badaga language]] and a vowel + virama + ḻ is used to transcribe its retroflex vowels.<ref>{{cite book | title = The Unicode Standard, Version 15.0 | chapter = 12.8 Kannada | publisher = Unicode, Inc | date = September 2022 | location = Mountain View, CA | url = https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch12.pdf#G701836}}</ref>

Another letter (or unclassified ''vyanjana'' (consonant)) that has become extinct is 'nh' or 'inn'. [[File:Kannada-archaic-n.png|10px|baseline|link=Histocal form of 'N'|alt=ನ್]] Likewise, this has its equivalent in [[Telugu language|Telugu]], where it is called ''Nakaara pollu''. The usage of this consonant was observed until the 1980s in Kannada works from the mostly coastal areas of Karnataka (especially the [[Dakshina Kannada]] district). Now, hardly any mainstream works use this consonant. This letter has been replaced by {{lang|kn|ನ್}} (consonant n).{{citation needed|date=March 2007}}

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