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Telugu is more inflected than other literary Dravidian languages. Telugu nouns are inflected for number (singular, plural), gender (masculine and non-masculine) and grammatical case (nominative, accusative, instrumental, dative, ablative, genitive, locative and vocative). [2] There is a rich system of derivational morphology in Telugu.
Speakers of Telugu refer to it as simply Telugu or Telugoo. [44] Older forms of the name include Teluṅgu and Tenuṅgu. [45] Tenugu is derived from the Proto-Dravidian word *ten ("south") [46] 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 ...
Spoken by about 96 million people (2022), [7] 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. [8] It is one of the few languages that has primary official status in more than one Indian state , alongside Hindi and Bengali . [ 9 ]
Telangana Telugu, (Telangana slang or Telangana yaasa) often referred to as Hyderabadi Telugu (Telugu: హైదరాబాదీ తెలుగు) is a dialect of the Telugu language. It has its own history, spoken mostly in the Indian state of Telangana . [ 2 ]
Telugu Americans have suffered from hate crimes in America. The most notable of these incidents was the 2017 Olathe, Kansas shooting, in which a white supremacist, Adam Purinton, harassed two Telugu immigrants, Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani, under the pretense that they were Iranians and or illegal immigrants. Purinton proceeded to ...
Bhatraju (also transliterated as Bhatrazu) is an Indian caste of Telugu-speaking ballad reciters, poets, panegyrists, and religious musicians. [1] [2] They are primarily found in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and also in smaller numbers in the neighbouring states.
' Mother Telugu ') [1] is the personification of the Telugu people and their culture, depicted as a goddess symbolizing prosperity, tradition, and the importance of the Telugu language. Represented holding a harvest in her left hand to signify the region's agricultural abundance and prosperity, she carries a kalasam in her right hand ...
Telugu wiki-academies were established in 2009 to heighten awareness at engineering and MCA colleges in small towns in Andhra Pradesh. Tewiki Vartha, an e-zine, was created in 2010 to share behind-the-scenes stories of Telugu Wikipedia pages and editors. In 2012, another effort was made to revitalize the Telugu Wikipedia.