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Front Matter

Telugu Script

Script for Telugu, used by ~82 million people.

అ ఆ ఇ ఈ ఉ ఊ ఎ ఏ
Era
Medieval
Region
South Asia
System
Abugida
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Signs
56
Status
Active
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 · Types
Sample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+0C00–U+0C7F
Total signs56
In Unicode100
Unicode Blocks
Telugu
0C00 – 0C7F
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Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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Reading Mechanics

Direction · Method
↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
좌→우 (LTR)
α
System
Abugida
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
Keyboard layout data not yet available.
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The Lineage

Family · Descendants
Phylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family

Ancestors

Brahmi Script

Same family

SundaneseBrahmi ScriptDevanagariBengali (Bangla)GujaratiGurmukhi (Punjabi)Tamil ScriptKannada Script
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In the World

Usage · Reach

Languages

Telugu

Countries

India