is marked with a 'killer' stroke, such as ?? . This silencing diacritic and process is known as ???? {{translit, whereas the resulting letter is called an ????????? .

Kannada has a phonemic vowel length distinction, so like many other Brahmic scripts, the writing system has two sets of diacritics, one for short vowels and one for long vowels. Short vowels are referred to as ?????? , while long vowels are referred to as ????? .

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