The Kannada alphabet (IAST: Kannaḍa lipi) is an alphabet of the Brahmic family, used primarily to write the Kannada language, one of the Dravidian languages of South India especially in the state of Karnataka, Kannada script is widely used for writing Sanskrit texts in Karnataka. Several minor languages, such as Tulu, Konkani, Kodava, Sanketi and Beary, also use alphabets based on the Kannada script. The Kannada and Telugu scripts share high mutual intellegibility with each other, and are often considered to be regional variants of single script. Other scripts similiar Kannada script are Sinhala script (which included some elements from the Kadamba script), and Old Peguan script(used in Burma).