looks as if it was all one word. But in printing it will be found very easy to separate the words as is done in English.

The mark । is used to seperate lines of poetry; and elsewhere and ।। equivalent to the comma and period. In some Telugu printing the English stops (,;.?!—) have been introduced with good effect.

A letter is called అక్షరం axaram. An aspirated letter is called బ.

అ ă ఆ ā ఇ ĭ ఈ ī ఉ ŭ (or x ŭ) ఊ ū (or x ū) ఋ rŭ ౠ rū ఌ lu ఎ ĕ ఏ ē ఐ ai ఒ ŏ ఓ ō ఔ au