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Telugu grammar. Telugu is an agglutinative language with person, tense, case and number being inflected on the end of nouns and verbs. Its word order is usually subject-object-verb, with the direct object following the indirect object. The grammatical function of the words are marked by suffixes that indicate case and postpositions that follow ...
Grammar can be described as a system of categories and a set of rules that determine how categories combine to form different aspects of meaning. [84] Languages differ widely in whether they are encoded through the use of categories or lexical units. However, several categories are so common as to be nearly universal.
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 ...
Tamil Tamiḻ தமிழ் The word "Tamil" in the Tamil script Pronunciation [t̪amiɻ] ⓘ Native to India and Sri Lanka Region Tamil Nadu and the enclaves of Puducherry and Karaikal Sri Lanka Northern Province Eastern Province Ethnicity Tamils Sri Lankan Moors Native speakers L1: 79 million (2011–2019) L2: 8 million (2011) Language family Dravidian Southern Southern I Tamil– Kannada ...
Bh. Syamala. Profession. Historical linguist. Dravidian linguist. Academician. Administrator. Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (19 June 1928 – 11 August 2012) was an Indian linguist who specialised in Dravidian languages. He was born in Ongole in the Madras Presidency of British India (now currently in Andhra Pradesh, India ). [1]
Infinite verb forms depend on either a following verb or a following noun. They serve to form more complex syntactic constructions. Verbal compounds can be formed in Dravidian, for example the Tamil konṭuvara 'to bring' is composed of an infinite form of the verb koḷḷa 'to hold' and the verb vara 'to come'.
Telugu is hypothesised to have originated from a reconstructed Proto-Dravidian language. It is a highly Sanskritised language; as Telugu scholar C.P Brown states in page 266 of his book A Grammar of the Telugu language: "if we ever make any real progress in the language the student will require the aid of the Sanskrit Dictionary". [67]
Korada Ramakrishnaiya. Korada Ramakrishnaiya (2 October 1891 - 28 March 1962) was a Dravidian Philologist and litterateur. [1] He was the first Telugu scholar to publish research works on Comparative Dravidian Linguistics (CDL). [2] He published the first Literary Criticism based on modern methods 'Andhra Bharata Kavita Vimarshanamu'. [3] [4]