Importance of telugu literature

it's all about the language of TELUGU

1. Importance of TELUGU literature By: siva shankar pakkapati

2. INTRODUCTION 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

3. ETYMOLOGY 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.

4. Earliest records post- ikshvaku period Middle ages Vijayanagara empire Muslim rule Colonial period Post independence period

5. Geographic distribution 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 3 rd most spoken language in India

6. phonology 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

7. 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.

8. Pronouns: Telugu pronouns include personal pronouns Indefinite pronouns, relative pronouns and reciprocal or reflexive pronouns Sentence రాము బడికి వెళ్తాడు. Words రాము బడికి వెళ్తాడు. Transliteration rāmu baḍiki veḷtāḍu Gloss Ramu to school goes Parts Subject Object Verb Translation Ramu goes to school.

9. Writing system 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

10. Number system Telugu has its own digits, as shown below. However, these aren't used commonly. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ౧ ౨ ౩ ౪ ౫ ౬ ౭ ౮ ౯ sunna okati rendu muudu naalugu aidu aaru eedu enimidi tommidi

11. Alphabets 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 .

12. Conclusion 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

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