The
Kadamba script (known as
Pre Old-Kannada script) marks the birth of a dedicated script for writing
Kannada. It is a descendant of the
Brahmi script, an
abugida visually close to the
Kalinga alphabet. The Kadamba script was developed during the reign of the
Kadamba dynasty in the 4th-6th centuries. The Kadamba script is also known as Pre-Old-Kannada script. This script later became popular in what is today the state of
Goa and was used to write
Sanskrit, Kannada,
Konkani and
Marathi.