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What language is Telugu?
Telugu language, largest member of the Dravidian language family. Primarily spoken in southeastern India, it is the official language of the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. In the early 21st century Telugu had more than 75 million speakers. The first written materials in the language date from 575 ce.
Is Telugu a religion?
The vast majority of Telugus are Hindus. There are also some Telugu castes that have converted to Christianity and Islam. Each village has its main temple—often dedicated to a great Hindu god, usually Rama or Siva—as well as small shrines to numerous village deities, most of which are female.
What is Telugu also called?
Telugu was also referred as Andhramu (ఆంధ్రము) Telugu ranks fourth among the languages with the highest number of native speakers in India, with nearly 82 million speakers as per the 2011 census, and 15th in the Ethnologue list of languages by number of native speakers.
Is Telugu same as Hindi?
Well over 75 million people, the world over, speak Telugu, and it stands second only to Hindi in India as to the number of native speakers. According to linguists, Telugu is a Dravidian language. That is to say, it does not belong to the Indo-Aryan family to which Hindi, Sanskrit, Latin and Greek belong.
How are you in Telugu in English?
Greetings
| Hello | — | Vandanalu |
|---|---|---|
| How are you? | — | Neevu ela unnaavu? |
| I am fine | — | Nenu kshemamgaa unnaanu |
| Good Night | — | subha rathrilu |
| Thank you | — | Dandalu |
Is Telugu the hardest language to learn?
Telugu is easy to learn Because it is a phonetic language, its spelling coincides with the sounds that are pronounced when speaking Telugu. This means that approximately every letter in writing is a sound in speech, which makes learning Telugu relatively easier than learning English.
Is Telugu an ethnicity?
The Telugu people are an ethnic group that speaks Telugu as a native language and/or trace their origin to the Indian states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Large populations of the Telugu people are also found in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, and Odisha.
What is Telugu culture?
What we think of as Telugu culture is an incarnation of Indian cultural values and traditions that are idiosyncratic to the region where Telugu is spoken. Although Telugu writers produced great literature, their impact outside the borders of Andhra Pradesh is insignificant.
Who said Telugu is Italian of the East?
explorer Niccolo Da Conti
Says Wikipedia: “Being a mellifluous language, British authors in the 19th century called Telugu the Italian of the East. It is believed that Italian explorer Niccolo Da Conti, who visited Vijayanagara Empire during the 15th century, coined the phrase.”
What is the difference between Telugus and Tamils?
Beside the language, the complexions differences among the Tamils and Telugus are also different in the sense that most of the Telugus have fair or brown complexions wherease the Tamilians are mostly of dark of complexions. The features of this two ethnics too are distinctively varies.
What does Telugu mean in English?
Meaning of “Telugu” in the English Dictionary. “Telugu” in English. › [ C ] a member of a people that forms the main part of the population of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh : This area of Mumbai was largely settled by Tamils and Telegus from southern India .
How many people speak Telugu?
According to 2001 Census, there are 74 million people who speaks Telugu as their first language and it is almost 84 million if we add second and third language speakers.
How and when did the Telugu language come about?
The first written materials in the language date from 575 ce. The Telugu script is derived from that of the 6th-century Calukya dynasty and is related to that of the Kannada language. Telugu literature begins in the 11th century with a version of the Hindu epic Mahabharata by the writer Nannaya Bhatta.