Importance of TELUGU literature

By: siva shankar pakkapati

Telugu is a DRAVIDIAN LANGUAGE predominantly spoken in the Indian state of Andhra pradesh .

It is also spoken by significant minorities in the states Chattisgarh ,Karnataka ,Maharashtra ,Odisha .One of the five classical languages of India, Telugu ranks third by the number

The etymology of Telugu is not known for certain.It is derived from the word TRILINGA which mean the country of three lingas.

According to Marepalli Ramachandra Sastry“TELU” means white and “UNGA” means plural in Gondi.

post-ikshvaku period

Middle ages

Vijayanagara empire

Muslim rule

Colonial period

Post independence period

Mainly spoken in the state of AP, and neighbouring states ( Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Puducherry)

More than 8,00,000 population of US also speaks this language

With 7.2% of the population telugu is 3rd most spoken language in India

Telugu words generally end in vowels similar to pali language

Sanskrit loans have introduced aspirated and murmured consonants

Telugu does not have contrastive stress ,and speakers vary on where they perceive stress

Inflection:

Telugu nouns are inflected for number (singular, plural), gender (masculine, feminine, and neuter) and case (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, vocative, instrumental, and locative).

Gender:

Telugu has three genders: masculine, feminine, and neutral.

Pronouns:

Telugu pronouns include personal pronouns Indefinite pronouns, relative pronouns and reciprocal or reflexive pronouns

Sentence రాము బడికి వెళ్తా డు. Words రాము బడికి వెళ్తా డు. Transliteration rāmu baḍikiveḷtāḍu

Gloss Ramu to school goes

Parts Subject Object Verb

Translation Ramu goes to school.

The name Telugu written in the Telugu script

Main articles: Telugu alphabet and Telugu braille

Telugu script is written from left to right and consists of sequences of simple and/or complex characters. The script is syllabic in nature – the basic units of writing are syllables. Since the number of possible syllables is very large, syllables are composed of more basic units such as vowels and consonants . Consonants in consonant clusters take shapes that are very different from the shapes they take elsewhere. Consonants are presumed to be pure consonants, that is, without any vowel sound in them

Telugu has its own digits, as shown below. However, these aren't used commonly.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

0 ౧ ౨ ౩ ౪ ౫ ౬ ౭ ౮ ౯ sunna okati rendu muudu naalugu aidu

aaru eedu enimidi tommidi

The Telugu alphabet consist of 60 symbols – 16 vowels, 3 vowel modifiers, and 41 consonants. Sanskrit and Telugu alphabets are similar and exhibit one-to-one correspondence. Telugu has complete set of letters which follows scientific system to express sounds. Some of them are introduced to express fine shades of difference in sounds.

As the foreign languages craze increasing day by day the no.of Telugu speaking and using people is decreasing drastically

As it is a concern situation for every language which are on the edge of disappearance ,so every native speaker should must need to take care about their mother tongue