01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Telugu Script
Script for Telugu, used by ~82 million people.
Script for Telugu, used by ~82 million people. Called "the Italian of the East" for its melodic beauty, it is considered one of the world's most elegant scripts. Official in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, it is the language of "Tollywood" — one of India's largest film industries. Its current form was established in 11th-century Chalukya dynasty inscriptions.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Left to right (LTR)
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System
Abugida
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
08REACH