Kannada

Kannada is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Kannada people in India, mainly in the state of Karnataka, and by significant linguistic minorities in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Kerala, Goa and abroad. The language has roughly 38 million native speakers who are called Kannadigas (Kannadigaru), and a total of 51 million speakers according to a 2001 census. It is one of the scheduled languages of India and the official and administrative language of the state of Karnataka. (Source: Wikipedia)

Alphabet

The Kannada alphabet and digits are placed in cltk/corpus/kannada/alphabet.py.

The digits are placed in a list NUMERALS with the digit the same as the list index (0-9). For example, the kannada digit for 6 can be accessed in this manner:

In [1]: from cltk.corpus.kannada.alphabet import NUMERALS
In [2]: NUMERALS[6]
Out[2]: '೬'

The vowels are places in a list VOWELS and can be accessed in this manner :

In [1]: from cltk.corpus.kannada.alphabet import VOWELS
In [2]: VOWELS
Out[2]: ['ಅ', 'ಆ', 'ಇ', 'ಈ', 'ಉ', 'ಊ', 'ಋ','ೠ', 'ಎ', 'ಏ', 'ಐಒ', 'ಒ', 'ಓ', 'ಔ']

The rest of the alphabets are VOWEL_SIGNS, YOGAVAAHAKAS , UNSTRUCTURED_CONSONANTS and STRUCTURED_CONSONANTS that can be accessed in a similar way.