The Telugu script is also widely used for writing Sanskrit texts and to some extent the Gondi language.

The Brahmi script used by Mauryan kings eventually reached the Krishna River delta and would give rise to the Bhattiprolu script found on an urn purported to contain Lord Buddha's relics.

[5][6] Buddhism spread to East Asia from the nearby ports of Ghantasala and Masulipatnam (ancient Maisolos of Ptolemy and Masalia of Periplus).

[1][10][11] The Muslim historian and scholar Al-Biruni referred to both the Telugu language as well as its script as "Andhri".

ఁ represents a historically used ం that is no longer pronounced, or a nasalized vowel when transliterating other languages (e.g., Hindi) into the Telugu script.

ఀ: The combining candrabindu nasal vowel diacritic of the Telugu script.

Dravam The Telugu script has generally regular conjuncts, with trailing consonants taking a subjoined form, often losing the talakattu (the v-shaped headstroke).

[17] Telugu script was added to the Unicode Standard in October, 1991 with the release of version 1.0.

The Unicode block for Telugu is U+0C00–U+0C7F: In contrast to a syllabic script such as katakana, where one Unicode code point represents the glyph for one syllable, Telugu combines multiple code points to generate the glyph for one syllable, using complex font rendering rules.