The Byari people (the word “Byari” means “traders”) are Muslims of coastal Karnataka and Kerala, who commonly write their own language, a Dravidian language, in the Kannada script.
Recently, though, a Byari association created a script specifically for their community’s language. The extent to which the Byari community supports the script is still a matter of debate.
This entry is what Wikipedia calls a “stub”–that is, we know very little, we wish we knew more, and we’d love to hear from anyone who can add to our miserable little stub of knowledge.
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