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The first treatise on Telugu grammar (Telugu: వ్యాకరణం vyākaraṇam), the Andhra Shabda Chintamani (Telugu: ఆంధ్ర శబ్ద చింతామణి Āndhra śabda cintāmaṇi) was written in Sanskrit by Nannayya, who is considered the first poet (ādikavi) and grammarian of the Telugu language, in the 11th ...
Korada Mahadeva Sastri (29 December 1921- 11 October 2016) was an Indian linguist. [1] His classic work Historical Grammar of Telugu [2] was the first systematic study on the development of Telugu Language.
Appa-kavi's Appakavīyamu is a work on grammar, and scholars Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman call him "perhaps the most influential grammarian in Telugu". Only two chapters of this text survive - those on phonology and metrics.
Nannaya was the first to establish a formal grammar of written Telugu. This grammar followed the patterns which existed in grammatical treatises like Aṣṭādhyāyī and Vālmīkivyākaranam but unlike Pāṇini, Nannayya divided his work into five chapters, covering samjnā, sandhi, ajanta, halanta and kriya.[14]
Some legends credit Nannaya with writing Andhra-shabda-chintamani ("Magic Jewel of Telugu Words"), a Sanskrit-language work that was the first treatise on Telugu grammar. This lost work is said to have contained five chapters with 82 verses in the Arya metre. [10] Nannaya is said to have written this text with help of his friend Narayana Bhatta ...
Korada Ramakrishnayya (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. [2]
Paravastu Chinnayasuri (1806/7–1861/2) [1] was a Telugu writer who played a prominent role in the elevation of prose to importance in Telugu literature. [2] He was the first Telugu Pandit at the Presidency College, Madras. [3] He also worked as a law scholar for the Supreme Court of East India Company.
Ellis is the first scholar who classified the Languages with roots as Tamil as a separate language family. [3] [4] Robert Caldwell, who is often credited as the first scholar to propose a separate language family for South Indian languages, acknowledges Ellis's contribution in his preface to the first edition of A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South Indian Family of Languages: [5]