Telugu
- noun
- /ˈtɛlʊɡu/
- In Andhra Pradesh, many people communicate fluently in Telugu, especially in local markets.
- Telugu language
- Tamil and Telugu
- Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu
Examples
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Indian film songs are typically sung in Hindi or Urdu, though Tamil, Telugu, and other local Indian languages are commonly heard in regional films.
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I've been to Andhra Pradesh and formed that impression while surrounded by Telugu script every day.
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Now, Krishna here tells me his first language was Telugu, Telugu.
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It's just like just cosmetic now four years later, something negative, insignificant impact on Telugu and on mass positive in English.
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Massive rioting broke out in the Telugu-speaking region of southern India.
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First generation (Sub-ethnicity: Telugu) stakeholders: suppliers, members of customers, and first generation competitors were V. Gopal Pather Indians.
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At the time of the Emergency, the Indian Express was the largest newspaper chain in India, publishing from multiple cities in English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada.
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For the last two decades, for example, I've been hunting down major works of Telugu poetry composed over the last two hundred years in the tiny kingdoms of the northern Andhra coast, on the Bay of Bengal.
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Sriramalu, a speaker of Telugu, a major language in southern India, was particularly insistent that an autonomous "State" of the Indian Union consisting of the region inhabited by his Telugu-speaking ethnolinguistic community be created, as the Congress party had specifically promised to do in 1937.
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The film was dubbed in Telugu to reach a broader audience in southern India.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Telugu comes from the name the people of southeastern India use for their own language, seen in older forms like Telinga. One popular story says it comes from Trilinga, which means 'three lingas' or three holy stones that marked the region, so Telugu became the name for the language of that area.