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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 ...
Legal status. Telugu is the official language of the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. It is one of the 22 languages under schedule 8 of the constitution of India. It is one of the official languages of the union territories of Puducherry. Telugu is a protected language in South Africa.
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. It provides a survey of the historical development of the Telugu Language from the earliest times.
His thesis Telugu Verbal Bases (1961) is the first comprehensive account of comparative Dravidian phonology and derivational morphology of verbal bases in Dravidian from the standpoint of Telugu. His comprehensive grammar on koṃḍa or Kūbi is a monumental work in the area of non-literary Dravidian languages. [8]
Appa-kavi. Kākunūri Appa-kavi ( Telugu: కాకునూరి అప్పకవి) was a Telugu language poet and grammarian from present-day southern India, noted for writing the Telugu grammar book Appakavīyamu (1656 CE). He claims to have written the book at the instruction of the god Vishnu, based on a purported Sanskrit language ...
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]
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]
Old Telugu is an agglutinative language primarily utilizing suffixes to express grammatical relationships. Noun morphology included gender markers and various derivational processes, while verb morphology was highly developed with distinct markers for tense, mood, and aspect. Old Telugu exhibited flexibility in word order due to its ...