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  2. Telugu language - Wikipedia

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    Telugu words generally end in vowels. In Old Telugu, this was absolute; in the modern language m, n, y, w may end a word. Sanskrit loans have introduced aspirated and murmured consonants as well. Telugu does not have contrastive stress, and speakers vary on where they perceive stress. Most place it on the penultimate or final syllable ...

  3. Dravidian languages - Wikipedia

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    Iterative compounds could be formed by doubling a word, cf. Tamil avar "he" and avaravar "everyone" or vantu "coming" and vantu vantu "always coming". A special form of reduplicated compounds are the so-called echo words, in which the first syllable of the second word is replaced by ki, cf. Tamil pustakam "book" and pustakam-kistakam "books and ...

  4. List of English words of Dravidian origin - Wikipedia

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    Peacock, a type of bird; from Old English pawa, the earlier etymology is uncertain, but one source is Tamil tokei (தோகை) "peacock feather", via Latin or Greek [37] Sambal, a spicy condiment; from Malay, which borrowed the word from a Dravidian language [38] such as Tamil (சம்பல்) or Telugu (సంబల్).

  5. Tenglish - Wikipedia

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    Tenglish (Telugu: తెంగ్లిష్ (teṅgliṣ)), refers to the code-mixing or code-switching of the Telugu language and Indian English. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two languages and has been variously composed.

  6. South Dravidian languages - Wikipedia

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    Tamil peyar, Kannada hesaru, Bellari/Koraga hudari; Tamil puṟṟu, Jenu Kuruba uṯṯu, Ka. puttu, huttu, uttu. [3] [4] Tamil-Malayalam and Telugu show the conversion of Voiceless velar plosive (/k/) into Voiceless palatal plosive (/c/) at the beginning of the words (refer to comparative method for details). Kannada and other languages ...

  7. Old Telugu - Wikipedia

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    The term పాత తెలుగు pāta telugu is the Modern Telugu word, referring to the Old Telugu language.. The word పాత pāta and the adjectival prefixes ప్రాఁ prā̃, ప్ఴాన్ pḻān come from the reconstructed Dravidian word *paḻan-(tta), meaning old/ancient.

  8. Telugu people - Wikipedia

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    Telugu is the third most common language in India, right behind Bengali. Telugu is predominantly spoken in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, although it’s also the official language of several other states like Andaman and Nicobar, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Orissa, Kharagpur of West Bengal, Bellary Of Karnataka. It is a part of ...

  9. Telugu script - Wikipedia

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    Telugu script (Telugu: తెలుగు లిపి, romanized: Telugu lipi), an abugida from the Brahmic family of scripts, is used to write the Telugu language, a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as well as several other neighbouring states.