Language code: te

Technical information about ISO 639 language code te

The table below provides technical details for the Telugu language, designated by the te code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

te

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?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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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

*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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