HISTORY OF THE TELUGU LANGUAGE
HISTORY OF THE TELUGU LANGUAGE
It was additionally alluded to as 'Tenugu' before. 'Andhra' is the name given to it since the medieval occasions. Some contended that 'Telugu' was a defilement of 'Trilinga' (Sanskrit meaning three 'lingas'). An overall portrayal of the place that is known for the Telugus was made in the medieval occasions as 'the land set apart by three lingas of the three acclaimed altars of Draksharamam (East Godavari area), Kaleswaram (Karimnagar region) and Srisailam (Kurnool locale).
Telugu is the most generally communicated in language of the Dravidian family which comprises of 24 dialects spreading over the whole South-Asia, from Baluchistan to Sri Lanka. As far as populace, Telugu positions second to Hindi among the Indian dialects. As indicated by the 1981* Census, Telugu is spoken by more than 45 million in Andhra Pradesh. It has additionally spread to different pieces of the globe, i.e., Burma, Indo-China, South-Africa and the U.S.A. Being a resonant language, it is called, by its admirers as the 'Italian of the East'.
Telugu began from the Proto-Dravidian language. It presumably split from Proto-Dravidian between 1500 BCE and 1000 BCE, which was generally a similar time the Tamil language got unmistakable regarding abstract activity[1]. Telugu has a place with the Central Dravidian language subfamily, whose individuals began from the Proto-Dravidian spoken in the focal piece of the Deccan level. Different dialects of the focal gathering incorporate the rural Gondi, Konda, Kui and Kuvi dialects, which are all phonetically nearest to Telugu.
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