Telugu Letters & Alphabet
తెలుగు అక్షరమాల (లేదా) వర్ణమాల
Telugu Aksharamaala (or) Varnamaala
Asksharamaala means set of Telugu Alphabets. As we have vowels and consonants in English alphabets, in Telugu also we have vowels and consonants. In the past there were some letters in use but later on their usage has completely dissapeared.
Currently the Telugu script consists of 60 symbols — 16 vowels, 3 vowel modifiers, and 41 consonants. Telugu has a complete set of letters that follow a system to express sounds.
Vowels — Acchulu — అచ్చులు ( ch is like in ‘Ch’art)
Consonants — Hallulu — హల్లులు
Vowels — Acchulu — అచ్చులు
a — అ — as in come
aa/â — ఆ — as in far
i- ఇ — as in bit
ee/î — ఈ — as in feel
u — ఉ — as in could
uu/û — ఊ — as i ncool
ru — ఋ — as i nrupee
roo/rû — ఋూ — as in root
e — ఎ — as i nget
ê/ye — ఏ — as in stake
ai/ay — ఐ — as in might
o — ఒ — as in rotate
oo — ఓ — as in oat
Au — ఔ — as in out
Aum — అం
Ahaa — అః
The superscript ‘a’ stands for ‘అ’ and sounds like ‘o’ as in the subscript ‘come’. The same pattern applies to all other vowels.
For long vowels like ఆ, it is denoted as ‘ā’ or ‘ â’ or ‘aa’.
‘ఋ’ is pronounced always as ru, when it is used in a word along with other letters. otherwise when it is pronounced as a single letter, it is also pronounced as ‘Aru’ (Aru is the exact one.
Practice the pronunciation of letters by saying out loudly.
To know how to pronounce the letters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF3TrDz54kU
To know how to write the letters.
http://www.mainetelugu.com/telugu/Telugu_Alphabet_Workbook.pdf
