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Speakers of Telugu refer to it as simply Telugu or Telugoo. [45] Older forms of the name include Teluṅgu and Tenuṅgu. [46] Tenugu is derived from the Proto-Dravidian word *ten ("south") [47] to mean "the people who lived in the south/southern direction". The name Telugu, then, is a result of an "n" to "l" alternation established in Telugu ...
India has a Greenberg's diversity index of 0.914—i.e. two people selected at random from the country will have different native languages in 91.4% of cases. [11] As per the 2011 Census of India, languages by highest number of speakers are as follows: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam. [12] [13]
Spoken by about 96 million people (2022), [10] Telugu is the most widely spoken member of the Dravidian language family, and one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India. [11] It is one of the few languages that has primary official status in more than one Indian state , alongside Hindi and Bengali . [ 12 ]
The Telugu American population in the United States numbered around 87,543 in the year 2000. In 2010, the population surged to 222,977, then to 415,414 in 2017, 644,700 in 2020, and finally nearly doubling to around 1,239,000 in 2024. The immense growth in the 2020s was the result of an influx of students and corporate employees from Telugu ...
The Telugu people form the dominant ethnic group in Andhra Pradesh, making up to 83.88% (as per 2001 census) [1] of the total population of the state. They are the native speakers of the Telugu language. Telugu is one of the official languages of India and the official and administrative language of the state of Andhra Pradesh.
The Telugu Diaspora refers to Telugu people who live outside their homeland of Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. [16] They are predominantly found in North America, Europe, Australia, Caribbean, Gulf, Africa and other regions around the world. There are also few Telugus from other Indian states such as Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Odisha ...
The total number of speakers of Telugu, including those whose first language is not Telugu, is around 85 million people. This branch also includes the tribal language Gondi spoken in central India. The second-smallest branch is the Northern branch, with around 6.3 million speakers.
Andhra Pradesh (/ ˌɑːndrə prəˈdeɪʃ /; ISO: Āndhra Pradēś; Telugu: [aːndʱrɐ prɐdeːʃ] ⓘ abbr. AP) is a state in the southern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state and the tenth-most populous in the country. Telugu, one of India's classical languages, is the primary official language and the most widely spoken ...