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Front Matter
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.
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The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
좌→우 (LTR)
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System
Abugida
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Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
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