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The consonants with vowel diacritics are referred to in the Telugu language as guṇintālu (గుణింతాలు). The word Guṇita refers to 'multiplying oneself'. Therefore, each consonant sound can be multiplied with vowel sounds to produce vowel diacritics. The vowel diacritics along with their symbols and names are given below. [16]
Virama mutes the vowel of a consonant, so that only the consonant is pronounced.Example: క + ్ → క్ or [ka] + [∅] → [k].; Anusvara nasalize the vowels or syllables to which they are attached.
Old Telugu maintained a three-way distinction of coronal consonants which includes, alveolar, retroflex and dental stops. ḏ was originally derived from PDr post-nasal *-ṯ- and constrasted with intervocalic trill -ṟ-. In very few cases -ḏ- did appear intervocalically, eg.
Ṭa (ట) is a consonant of the Telugu abugida. It ultimately arose from the Brahmi letter . It is closely related to the Kannada letter ಟ. Since it lacks the v-shaped headstroke common to most Telugu letters, X remains unaltered by most vowel matras, and its subjoined form is simply a smaller version of the normal letter shape.
Gha (ఘ) is a consonant of the Telugu abugida. It ultimately arose from the Brahmi letter . It is closely related to the Kannada letter ಘ. Most Telugu consonants contain a v-shaped headstroke that is related to the horizontal headline found in other Indic scripts, although headstrokes do not connect adjacent letters in Telugu.
Telugu has three genders, which govern verb agreement: masculine ( puliṅgamu), feminine (strī liṅgamu), neuter (napunsaka liṅgamu). In Telugu the occurrence of the suffix (–ḍu) almost always encodes masculine gender. For example: tammuḍu (younger brother), mukhyuḍu (important man),
Alpaprāna aksharās (అల్పప్రాణ అక్షరాలు): Consonants without stress on the syllable are called Alpaprāna aksharās. Example: క, గ, చ (Ka, Ga, Cha) Nagarjuna198 Also Vowel and consonant chart matches Telugu article. Only this is that this chart is about phonology.Nagarjuna198
anna older.brother waccā ḍu come-past- MASC anna waccā ḍu older.brother come-past- MASC The older brother came amma mother wacc-in di come-past- FEM amma wacc-in di mother come-past- FEM Mother came In terms of the verbal agreement system, genders in marking on the Telugu verb only occur in the third person. Third person Singular Plural Masculine tericā- ḍu tericā- ḍu He opened ...