Language code: te
Technical information about ISO 639 language code te
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The table below provides technical details for the Telugu language, designated by the te code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Telugu Native తెలుగు |
| Family | Southern |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Coastal AndhraRayalaseemaTelangana |
| Related languages | KannadaGondiKoyaKui |
| Key facts | It has the second-highest number of native speakers among Dravidian tonguesThe Telugu script developed from Brahmi via the Kadamba script lineBecause most words end in open vowels, European linguists once nicknamed it “the Italian of the East”The oldest known Telugu inscription dates to the 6th century CEVerbs are highly agglutinative, packing subject, object, tense, aspect and mood markers into one word. |
| Sample phrase | హలో, మీరు ఎలా ఉన్నారు? |
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Telugu belongs to the Dravidian language family, specifically to the Southern subgroup. It is one of the official languages in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and the Yanam district of Puducherry in India. It is written using the Telugu script. It is estimated that there are around 95 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
Speakers
94M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Telugu speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
te-IN – Telugu (India)
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- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ