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Telugu script, an abugida from the Brahmic family of scripts, is used to write the Telugu language, a language spoken in the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as well as several other neighbouring states. The Telugu script is also widely used for writing Sanskrit texts. It gained prominence during the Vengi Chalukyas era. It shares many similarities with its sibling Kannada script.
Telugu is a Dravidian language native to India. It stands alongside Hindi, English and Bengali as one of the few languages that predominate in more than one Indian state; it is the primary language in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, as well as in the town of Yanam where it is also an official language. It is also spoken by significant minorities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry, and by the Sri Lankan Gypsy people. It is one of six languages designated a classical language of India by the Government of India. Telugu ranks third by the number of native speakers in India (74 million, 2001 census), fifteenth in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide and is the most widely-spoken Dravidian language. It is one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India.
In loans from Sanskrit, Telugu retains some of the features that have subsequently been lost in some of Sanskrit's daughter languages such as Hindi and Bengali, especially in the pronunciation of some vowels and consonants.
The era of writing by hand is drawing to a close and the era of typing on a computer keyboard is emerging at a blazing speed. We are going to spend increasingly more time typing on the keyboards and hence we are bound to experience stress on our fingers. The stress cannot be completely eliminated but can be significantly reduced with an ergonomically designed keyboard layout. An ergonomic keyboard layout maps the letters to the keys on the keyboard according to the frequency of use of the letters.
Currently, there is no keyboard layout that is specifically optimized for the Telugu Script. The most popular keyboard layouts supported by Anu Fonts, the popular desktop publishing software or the IME transliteration sequence used by Baraha [11] and Google[14] or the ISCII-91 Inscript Keyboard Overlay, which has become the de-facto standard are not optimized for Telugu script. These layouts are either adoptions of keyboard layouts of other languages or based on clustering letters based on phonetic or alphabetical affinities.
It is surprising that the need for an optimized keyboard layout for typing Telugu script did not get enough attention from agencies like Department of Electronics (DOE), Center for Development of Advanced Computing, Andhra Pradesh Official Language Commission, or Telugu university; or from computer operating system manufacturers like Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Apple and IBM. Even if there were efforts by these agencies, they are certainly not available readily
It is necessary to understand the frequency of use of Telugu letters before designing the keyboard layout for Telugu script. For this purpose, a large sample of Telugu text in Unicode was collected from various websites [7-9] consisting of more than 3,00,000 letters, equivalent to more than 150 A4 size pages in print. This sample consisted of various types of contemporary writings such as fictional prose, poetry, news items, movie reviews, essays on computer technology, articles about business, letters and opinions, astrology, vasstu and classic literature. The sample also included non-Telugu (e.g. English and Hindi) words that are often written in Telugu script.

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