Telugu alphabet

Origin

The Telugu alphabet is an descendant of the Brahmi script of ancient India. It is closely related to the Kannada alphabet. The earliest known inscriptions in the Telugu language date from the 6th century AD and Telugu poetry started to appear during the 11th century.

Until the 20th century, Telugu was written in an archaic style very different from the everyday spoken language. During the the second half of the 20th century, a new written standard emerged based on the modern spoken language.

Notable features

This is a syllabic alphabet in which all consonants have an inherent vowel. Diacritics, which can appear above, below, before or after the consonant they belong to, are used to change the inherent vowel.
When they appear the the beginning of a syllable, vowels are written as independent letters.
When certain consonants occur together, special conjunct symbols are used which combine the essential parts of each letter.

Used to write:

Telugu, a Dravidian language spoken by about 75 million people in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and neighboring states, and also in Bahrain, Fiji, Malaysia, Mauritius, Singapore and the UAE.

Source: http://www.ethnologue.com

Telugu alphabet

Vowels and vowel diacritics

Telugu vowels and vowel diacritics

Consonants

Telugu consonants

Conjunct consonants

Telugu conjunct consonants

Other symbols

Other Telugu symbols

Numerals

Telugu numerals

Sample text in Telugu

Sample text in Telugu

Source: http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/మొదటి_పేజీ

Links

Telugu Translation

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Information about the Telugu language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_language
http://www.teluguworld.org/Telugu/telugu_history.html
http://www.engr.mun.ca/~adluri/telugu/

Free Telugu fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Telugu.html
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=FontsInCyberspace#t

Online Telugu-English dictionary
http://www.sahiti.org/dict/

Telugu World - information about Telugu language and literature
http://www.teluguworld.org

Send email in Indian languages
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Other syllabic alphabets

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