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  Telugu alphabet, pronunciation and language
The Telugu alphabet is an descendant of the Brahmi script of ancient India.
The earliest known inscriptions in the Telugu language date from the 6th century AD and Telugu poetry started to appear during the 11th century.
This is a syllabic alphabet in which all consonants have an inherent vowel.
www.omniglot.com /writing/telugu.htm   (246 words)

  
  Telugu language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Telugu is mainly spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh and to a lesser extent in the neighboring states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa, and Chhattisgarh in India.
The dialects of Telugu identified by Ethnologue are Berad, Dasari, Dommara, Golari, Kamathi, Komtao, Konda-Reddi, Madiga Salewari, padmasali, Telangana, Telugu, Vadaga, Vadari, Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, Rayalaseema, Nellore and Guntur.
Telugu literature flourished in the south in the Samsthanas like Madurai, Tanjavur etc., and that is why the age itself was called the "Southern Period".
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/telugu_language   (2839 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Telugu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The dialects of Telugu identified by Ethnologue are Berad, Dasari, Dommara, Golari, Kamathi, Komtao, Konda-Reddi, Madiga Salewari, Telangana, Telugu, Vadaga, Vadari, Srikakula, Vishakapatnam, East Godavari, Rayalseema, Nellore and Guntur.
Telugu(తెలుగు) belongs to the family of Dravidian languages and is the official language of the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
The dialects of Telugu identified by Ethnologue are Berad, Dasari, Dommara, Golari, Kamathi, Komtao, Konda-Reddi, Salewari, Telangana, Telugu, Vadaga, Vadari, Srikakula, Vishakapatnam, East Godavari, Rayalseema, Nellore and Guntur.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Telugu   (302 words)

  
 Telugu - Wikipedia
Telugu ist eine der meistgesprochenen Sprachen Indiens, nur Hindi und Bengali haben in Indien mehr Sprecher.
Telugu wird von mehr Menschen gesprochen als irgendeine andere dravidische Sprache.
Telugu ist nachhaltig von Sanskrit beeinflusst und auch von Prakrit (wörtlich: volkstümlich), den Provinz- und Volksdialekten des Sanskrit.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Telugu   (281 words)

  
 Telugu language
Telugu (తెలుగు) belongs to the Dravidian language family and is the official language of the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
The western portion of the Telugu speaking lands came under the influence of Mughal rulers during and after the 14th century, and most recently by the Nizams of Hyderabad.
Telugu is mainly spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh and a bit in the neighboring states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharastra, Orissa and Chhattisgarh in India, but it is also spoken in Bahrain, Fiji, Malaysia, Mauritius and the United Arab Emirates where there are large numbers of Telugu speaking expatriates.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/te/telugu_language.html   (1634 words)

  
 Telugu language - InformationBlast
Telugu is mainly spoken in Andhra Pradesh in India and in neighboring states in India, but it is also spoken in Bahrain, Fiji, Malaysia, Mauritius, United States, Singapore, and United Arab Emirates.
The dialects of Telugu identified by the Ethnologue are Berad, Dasari, Dommara, Golari, Kamathi, Komtao, Konda-Reddi, Salewari, Telangana, Telugu, Vadaga, Vadari, Srikakula, Vishakapatnam, East Godavari, Rayalseema, Nellore and Guntur.In Tamil Nadu the Telugu dialect is classified into salem, coimbatore, chennai Telugu dialects.
Telugu is usually written using the Telugu alphabet, a Brahmic script.
www.informationblast.com /Telugu_language.html   (406 words)

  
 Telugu language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Telugu is a member of the Telugu along with Chenchu language Savara language and language.
The dialects of Telugu identified by the Ethnologue are Berad Dasari Dommara Golari Kamathi Konda-Reddi Salewari Telangana Telugu Vadaga Vadari Srikakula East Godavari Rayalseema Nellore and Guntur.In Tamil the Telugu dialect is classified into salem chennai Telugu dialects.
In Telugu Karta (nominative case or the doer) Karma (object of the verb) and Kriya (action or the verb) follow a Linguists classify Telugu as a Dravidian Language this pattern is found in other Dravidian but not in Sanskrit.
www.freeglossary.com /Telugu   (483 words)

  
 Telugu language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Telugu belongs to the family of Dravidianlanguages and is the official language of the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
The dialects of Telugu identified by the Ethnologue are Berad, Dasari,Dommara, Golari, Kamathi, Komtao, Konda-Reddi, Salewari, Telangana, Telugu, Vadaga, Vadari, Srikakula, Vishakapatnam, EastGodavari, Rayalseema, Nellore and Guntur.In Tamil Nadu the Telugu dialect is classified into salem, coimbatore, chennai Telugudialects.
Linguists classify Telugu as a Dravidian Language as this pattern is found in other Dravidian languagesbut not in Sanskrit.
www.therfcc.org /telugu-language-141177.html   (396 words)

  
 Telugu script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Telugu script, an abugida from the Brahmic family of scripts, is used to write Telugu, a Dravidian Language found in the Southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh as well as several other neighboring states.
Telugu uses 14 vowels, each of which has both a singular form and a diacritic form used with consonants to create syllables.
The other diacritic vowels are added to consonants to change their pronunciation to that of the vowel.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/telugu_alphabet   (274 words)

  
 Telugu language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Telugu speakers were probably the older peoples inhabiting the land between Krishna and Godavari.
Telugu speaking Andhras have become a large and successful Indian community in the USA [http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~kiranv/telugu.htm].
Telugu exhibits one of the quirks of Dravidian languages: the bifurcation of the First Person Plural pronoun (''we'' in English) into inclusive (మనము; ''manamu'') and exclusive (మేము; ''memu'') versions.
goc.subdomain.de /Telugu   (1148 words)

  
 Brahmi alphabet
The Brahmi alphabet is the ancestor of most of the 40 or so modern Indian alphabets, and of a number of other alphabets, such as Khmer and Tibetan.
The structure of the Brahmi alphabet is similar to that of modern Indian alphabets: each letters represents a consonant with a inherent vowels /a/.
Ahom, Balinese, Batak, Bengali, Brahmi, Buhid, Burmese, Cham, Dehong Dai/Tai Le, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Grantha, Gujarati, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Hanuno'o, Hmong, Javanese, Kannada, Kharosthi, Khmer, Lanna, Lao, Lepcha, Limbu, Lontara/Makasar, Malayalam, Manpuri, Modi, Oriya, Phags-pa, Ranjana, Redjang, Sharda, Siddham, Sinhala, Sorang Sompeng, Sourashtra, Soyombo, Syloti Nagri, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tai Dam, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tocharian, Varang Kshiti
www.omniglot.com /writing/brahmi.htm   (244 words)

  
 Telugu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Telugu gehört zur Gruppe der dravidischen Sprachen die genetisch nicht mit den indoarischen Sprachen verwandt sind.
Telugu wird von mehr Menschen gesprochen irgendeine andere drawidische Sprach.
Telugu ist nachhaltig von Sanskrit und auch von Prakrita (wörtlich: volkstümlich) den und Volks-Dialekten des Sanskrit.
www.uni-protokolle.de /Lexikon/Telugu.html   (229 words)

  
 Telugu language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Telugu speakers were probably the older Dravidian peoples inhabiting the land between Krishna and Godavari.
Telugu is mainly spoken in Andhra Pradesh in India and in neighboring states(Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharastra, Orissa) in India, but it is also spoken in Bahrain, Fiji, Mauritius and United Arab Emirates.
Telugu is often considered an agglutinative language, where certain syllables are added to the end of a noun in order to denote its case: For example, the declension of Ramudu (masculine singular): These agglutinations apply to all nouns generally in the singular and plural.
telugu-language.area51.ipupdater.com   (1037 words)

  
 Serebella Contents Telstra Stadium---Telugu Desam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Telugu Telugu belongs to the family of Dravidian languages and is the official language of the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
19th century Britishers called it the "Italian of the East" as all words in Telugu end with a vowel sound.
It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Telugu".
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/contains-422733-422740-Telstra_Stadium-Telugu_Desam.html   (160 words)

  
 OHCHR: Telugu () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Telugu is spoken principally in the state of Andra Pradesh, south-eastern India.
In tracing its origins, there is reason to believe that Telugu is not the language of any specific dominant people of Eastern India, but rather the confluence of individual languages of a dozen-to-twenty big tribal groups.
The Telugu alphabet most closely resembles that of Kanarese, both of them having developed out of the Grantha script, which appeared in India approximately in the 5th century A.D. Received: 19980525
www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/tcw.htm   (136 words)

  
 Andhra Pradesh Languages,Language of Andhra Pradesh
Telugu is the official language of Andhra Pradesh.
Telugu belongs to the family of Dravidian languages, which consists of 24 languages spanning the entire South-Asia, from Baluchistan to Sri Lanka.
The most popular explanation that is given to the word Telugu is that it comes from the word "Trilinga", i.e.
www.indiantravelportal.com /andhra-pradesh/languages   (464 words)

  
 Telugu Language Course, Audio, CD ROM, Tapes, Learn, Speak Telugu
Telugu is spoken in the Andhra Pradesh state of India and anyplace where people of higher intelligence and refinement, congregate.
Includes progressive, step-by-step lessons on writing the alphabet, vowels, consonants, word formation, etymology, numbers, formation of sentences, positive and negative interrogatives, person, cases, and all the grammar and practise exercises needed to achieve familiarity with the Telugu language.
Telugu is the language spoken principally in the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India.
www.maps2anywhere.com /Languages/Telugu_language_course.htm   (833 words)

  
 Sanskrit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most of the Dravidian languages of India, despite being a separate linguistic family by their own right, are highly influenced by Sanskrit, especially in terms of loanwords.
Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada have the highest incidence of loans (respectively) while Tamil has the lowest.
In the south where Dravidian languages predominate, scripts used for Sanskrit include Kannada in Kannada and Telugu speaking regions, Telugu in Telugu and Tamil speaking regions, Malayalam and Grantha in Tamil speaking regions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sanskrit   (6560 words)

  
 UC Davis News & Information :: IN THE RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: Rao Vemuri furthers science through language, cultural ...
Telugu is the second-largest of India's 16 main languages, spoken by some 80 million people.
He wrote his first book in Telugu, a primer on computers, as a graduate student at UCLA in the late 1960s.
While English and Telugu look a lot different, their ancestral languages -- Latin and Sanskrit -- share the same ancient roots, and many scientific terms can be traced back to those roots.
www.dateline.ucdavis.edu /dl_detail.lasso?id=8084   (940 words)

  
 Telugu Drill and Practice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
I have developed some simple web pages that allow a person to build a knowledge of the Telugu alphabet and vocabulary through drill and practice.
The transliteration scheme I have used in these pages is the same as the Telugu Lipi editor uses.
If you are a Telugu speaker and see something that isn't right here, please tell me.
www.burtonia.com /telugu   (303 words)

  
 The Mystery of South India: Ideas & Identities of India Pakistan
Telugu: Telugu is usually written using the Telugu alphabet, a Brahmic script.
The script itself, which resembles the Telugu script, is fairly complicated like most other languages of India owing to the occurrence of various combinations of "half-letters", or symbols that attach to various letters in a manner similar to the aigue, grave, and cédille marks in Romance languages.
Telugu and Kannada scripts are very close and they have more number of Sanskrit words in them than Tamil and Malayalam.
www.chowk.com /show_article.cgi?aid=00003899&channel=gulberg&start=120&end=129&page=13&chapter=2&order=0#26   (4528 words)

  
 Telugu language
Telugu is mainly spoken in Andhra Pradesh in India and in neighboring states in India, but it is also spoken in Bahrain, Fiji, Malaysia, Mauritius, United States, Singapore, United Kingdom, and United Arab Emirates.
The famous epic in Indian literature Mahabharatha was translated into telugu over a period of a few centuries by Nannaya, Tikkana and Yerrapragada.
Tyagaraja, Annamacharya and Kshetrayya are but a few of a number of contributors.
en.mcfly.org /Telugu+language   (668 words)

  
 Telugu Cinema - Research - Analysis - Some Ramblings -Nuvve Nuvve - Srinivas Kanchibhotla
It can be said that not many movies stay with you long after their scheduled run, and the ones that do, do so, for those innumerable emotions that they invoke, for those countless ways that they connect and for those mysterious ways, that they well up the hidden feelings.
The skill at finding this new angle within every character that greets us on the screen, is something that Trivikram has honed with each passing movie, and it touched a new zenith in Nuvve Nuvve.
This movie is a triangle of sorts involving a possessive father, his torn daughter and her optimistic lover.
www.idlebrain.com /research/ramblings/ramblings-nuvvenuvve.html   (701 words)

  
 Telugu script: Onamaalu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Just as Buddhism was widely practised in the ancient Telugu country, Jainism flourished in the Kannade country.
The gurus initiated the Aksharabhyasam of the children with a prayer to the Thirthankaras and Siddhas.
The initiation prayer generally took the form of "Onnamassivaya Siddham Namaha." Over the years it became O-Na-Ma-See-Vaa-Yaa-See-Dham-Namaha and the alphabet that was learnt with this prayer came to be called "O-na-ma-lu." Source: Mana lipi puttupoorvotharaalu by Thirumala Raamachandra.
www.teluguworld.org /Telugu/Onamaalu.html   (254 words)

  
 Telugu Diaspora, Overseas Telugus, People of Telugu Origin, NRIs, Telugu Identity, Migration of Andhras,
He has written extensively in both Telugu and English, both fiction and non-fiction and is committed to the cause of popularizing science.
During the Spring Quarter of 2003, I taught an introductory Telugu course at the University of California, Davis.
One girl is hundred percent Telugu and learned Karantic music and Bharata Natyam as an youngster, but her knowledge of Telugu is marginal, at best.
www.telugudiaspora.com /telugu_publications_article6.htm   (1923 words)

  
 Mauritius Andhra Maha Sabha - Telugu in Mauritius - Mauritius Youth Wing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mauritius Andhra Maha Sabha - Telugu in Mauritius - Mauritius Youth Wing
Telugu was initially called Andhra bhasha (the language of Andhra).
In Telugu, Karta (nominative case or the doer), Karma (object of the verb) and Kriya (action or the verb) follow a sequence.
www.mauritiustelugu.com /telugu.html   (421 words)

  
 Rowan professor's poetry bridges two cultures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Even though the Telugu alphabet has 52 letters, compared to 26 in English, the written language combines consonants and vowels into single characters.
While contemporary Telugu poetry, like its English- language counterpart, is "becoming more prose-like," in Chandrupatla's words, the traditional verse is tightly - one could say mathematically - structured.
The poem's title roughly translates as "It is there;" to a columnist who doesn't speak Telugu, Chandrupatla's words about finding the essence and enormity of creation within the tiniest of things sound positively magical.
www.courierpostonline.com /columnists/cxri020105a.htm   (656 words)

  
 Telugu Aksharaalu-(Telugu Alphabets). Learn telugu online
To learn a language is to enter a new world and relive one's life with the zest of a new childhood.
With minimum or with practically no grammar at all and with the just absolutely necessary basic vocabulary, the author has evolved in the realm of language-teaching an admirable system of his own which is simple as simple can be yet is efficient in the main.
Upon finishing the course the learner should have a good grounding in everyday vocabulary, grammar, and usage, and be able to communicate with native speakers.
www.teluguwebsite.com /Telugu_Alphabets.html   (730 words)

  
 Telugu
Features goals of preserving Telugu cultural heritage and maintain the identity of the people and to provide a forum for Telugu literary, cultural, educational, social, and charitable interactions.
A range of translations between English and Telugu, with the addition of a quiz to test skills.
Telugu Mahaa Kavulu, Asta Diggaja Kavulu, Sakamulu, inkaa enneno..
www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Telugu   (930 words)

  
 Telugu - Bedeutung, Definition, Erklärung im netlexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Telugu (తెలుగు) gehört zur Gruppe der dravidischen Sprachen, die nicht mit den indoarischen Sprachen verwandt sind.
Praktisches Lehrbuch des Telugu von Anton Sommer (Unbekannter Einband)
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www.lexikon-definition.de /Telugu.html   (305 words)

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