Telugu

Telugu తెలుగు is a language spoken in the southern part of India and the Peninsular part of Malaysia. It is the official language of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. It is one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India. Telugu is the second most spoken language in India and 15th largest spoken language in the world. As it is one of the oldest languages in the world, Government of India gave it the status of a Classical language.

Telugu
తెలుగు
Native to	India and Malaysia
Region	Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Punjab, Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal, Delhi, Gujarat, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Peninsular Malaysia
Native speakers	76 million (2007)[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern South-Central Telugu languages Telugu
Writing system	Telugu alphabet (Brahmic) Telugu Braille
Official status
Official language in	India  Thailand  Réunion  Botswana  Philippines  Azerbaijan  Kazakhstan  Israel  Tunisia  Algeria  Mauritius  South Africa  United Arab Emirates  Saudi Arabia  Malaysia  Myanmar  Singapore  United States  Tanzania  Kenya  Denmark  Nigeria  Sri Lanka  Germany  Maldives  Laos  Seychelles  Spain  Cape Verde  Ireland  Uruguay  Egypt  Lebanon  Jordan  Qatar  Kuwait  Bahrain  Oman  Morocco  Trinidad and Tobago  Fiji  Italy  Portugal  Sweden  Norway  Finland  Belgium  Netherlands  Poland  Jamaica
Language codes
ISO 639-1	te
ISO 639-2	tel
ISO 639-3	tel
Distribution of native Telugu speakers in India (as of 1961)

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Telugu edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

With 56 letters [16 vowels and 36 consonants, 4 removed], Telugu has more letters in its alphabet than any other language. There were letters for sounds Al, Aluu, which were later removed from the alphabet. Every Telugu word ends with an vowel.