Kharoshthi vs Telugu

Writing system comparison · ISO Khar vs ISO Telu

Kharoshthi is a Historical Left-to-right script from South Asian (68 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. Telugu is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian (101 Unicode characters) used by 4 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Kharoshthi Telugu
ISO Code Khar Telu
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Historical Living
Region South Asian South Asian
Characters 68 101
Languages 0 4
Script Type Abugida Abugida
Descended From Brahmi Brahmi
Total Speakers ~95M
Introduced 1100 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+10A00–U+10A58
U+0C00–U+0C7F

Only in Kharoshthi

0 languages
None unique

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Telugu

4 languages

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Data sourced from the ISO 15924 registry, Unicode CLDR, and the Unicode Character Database.