
Dodda e
Dodda e (large e), dirga svara e , ekaravu ( cann. ಏಕಾರವು ) - letter of the Kannada alphabet, denotes the long (dirga svara) unbroken vowel of the front row of the middle-upper rise , used at the beginning of the word, transmitted inside the word using interline contact diacritic sign (svarachikhnam) etwa dirga , which is written in the upper right corner of the letter. Unlike the gudis deerga , etwa is written together with talekattu and does not depend on the form of the letter (it does not have a segmented spelling). At first, the words Ekaravu are pronounced with the sound "Y".

Etwa Dirga
| Kannada | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swara (vowels) | |||||||||
| ಅ | ಆ | ಇ | ಈ | ಉ | ಊ | ||||
| ಋ | ೠ | ಎ | ಏ | ಐ | ಒ | ||||
| ಓ | ಔ | ||||||||
| Yogawahaka | |||||||||
| ಅಂ | ಅಃ | ||||||||
| Vyanjan (consonants) | |||||||||
| ಕ | ಖ | ಗ | ಘ | ಙ | |||||
| ಚ | ಛ | ಜ | ಝ | ಞ | |||||
| ಟ | ಠ | ಡ | ಢ | ಣ | |||||
| ತ | ಥ | ದ | ಧ | ನ | |||||
| ಪ | ಫ | ಬ | ಭ | ಮ | |||||
| Avarga Vyanjan | |||||||||
| ಯ | ರ | ಱ | ಲ | ವ | ಶ | ||||
| ಷ | ಸ | ಹ | ಳ | ೞ | |||||
| New consonants | |||||||||
| ಜ಼ | ಫ಼ | ||||||||