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Telugu Alphabet

The letters and characters of Telugu written in the Telugu script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 101,457,360 people read or write it across 1 country.

7Fonts cover the standard set
70Standard characters
101,457,360People
1Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Telugu — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page.

Additional Characters

Used for foreign words, names and technical terms, and older forms of the language.

Punctuation characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.

-U+002D‑U+2011,U+002C;U+003B:U+003A!U+0021?U+003F.U+002E'U+0027‘U+2018’U+2019"U+0022“U+201C”U+201D(U+0028)U+0029[U+005B]U+005D{U+007B}U+007D&U+0026#U+0023

Where Telugu is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Telugu in the Telugu script. The map is zoomed to the region where at least 1% of a country's people read it; neighbouring countries are shown unshaded for context.

50% or more of the country 10–50% 1–10% under 1% not listed for this language

Estimated readers — share of each country's population (CLDR).

CountryEstimated readersShare of population
India 101,457,360 7.2%

Telugu — facts

Font coverage 7 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 70 standard characters; 3 include the standard and additional sets together. Counts are exact for the snapshot of 21 October 2026.
Script Telugu
Unicode blocks Basic Latin, Telugu, General Punctuation
People About 101,457,360 people read or write Telugu in the Telugu script — mostly in India.

Data: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters (CLDR 48.2.0) and CLDR territory population data. Font counts: snapshot of 21 October 2026.