Telugu script

Telugu script
తెలుగు లిపి
The word 'Telugu Lipi' in Telugu script
Script type
Time period
c. 1300 CE–present[1]
DirectionLeft-to-right Edit this on Wikidata
LanguagesTelugu
Lambadi
Gondi
Koya
Konda
Sanskrit
Saurashtra
Related scripts
Parent systems
Sister systems
Kannada
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Telu (340), ​Telugu
Unicode
Unicode alias
Telugu
U+0C00–U+0C7F
 This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.
Brahmic scripts
The Brahmi script and its descendants
Northern Brahmic
Southern Brahmic
This article contains Indic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text.

Telugu script (Telugu: తెలుగు లిపి, romanized: Telugu lipi), an abugida from the Brahmic family of scripts, is used to write the Telugu language, a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as well as several other neighbouring states. It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic. The Telugu script is also widely used for writing Sanskrit texts and to some extent the Gondi language. It gained prominence during the Eastern Chalukyas also known as Vengi Chalukya era. It shares extensive similarities with the Kannada script, as both of them evolved from the Bhattiprolu and Kadamba scripts of the Brahmi family.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference epigraphy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems by Florian Coulmas, p. 228
  3. ^ Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography, R. Malatesha Joshi, Catherine McBride (2019), p. 29
  4. ^ "Evolution of Telugu Character Graphs". Retrieved 2013-07-22.
  5. ^ "chart". Archived from the original on 2020-07-24. Retrieved 2020-06-15.