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Telugu script, an abugida from the Brahmic family of scripts, is used to write the Telugu language, a language found in the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as well as several other neighbouring states. Telugu script is also widely used for writing Sanskrit texts.It gained prominence during the Vengi Chalukyas era. It shares high similarity with its sibling Kannada script. ==Derivation from Brahmi script== The Brahmi script used by Mauryan kings eventually reached Krishna River delta and gave rise to Bhattiprolu script found on the urn containing Buddha's relics.〔Antiquity of Telugu language and script: http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/20/stories/2007122054820600.htm〕〔(Ananda Buddha Vihara )〕 Buddhism spread to east Asia from the nearby ports of Ghantasala and Masulipatnam (ancient Maisolos of Ptolemy and Masalia of Periplus).〔(The Great Stupa at Nagarjunakonda in Southern India-【佛学研究网】 佛教文化网 中国佛教网 中国佛学网 佛教信息网 佛教研究 佛学讲座 禅学讲座 吴言生说禅 )〕 The Bhattiprolu Brahmi script evolved into the Telugu script by 5th century C.E.〔The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems by Florian Coulmas, p. 228〕〔Vishwabharath by K. N. Murthy and G. U. Rao, http://tdil.mit.gov.in/TelugulScriptDetailsApr02.pdf〕〔Indiain Epigraphy: a guide to the study of inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan languages, by Richard Solomon, Oxford University Press, 1998, p.40, ISBN 0-19-509984-2〕〔Indian Epigraphy by Dineschandra Sircar, Motilal Banarsidass, 1996, p.46, ISBN 81-208-1166-6〕〔The Dravidian Languages by Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, 2003, Cambridge University Press, pp.78-79, ISBN 0-521-77111-0〕〔Comparative Dravidian linguistics: Current perspectives by Bhadriraju Krishnamurti. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-19-824122-4〕〔K. Raghunath Bhat, http://ignca.gov.in/nl001809.htm〕 The Telugu and Kannada alphabets are essentially regional calligraphic variants of a single script. The Muslim historian and scholar Al-Biruni called the Telugu language and script ''Andhri''.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Telugu script」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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