Telugu

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Telugu is a major Dravidian language predominantly spoken in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, known for its rich literary tradition and classical status.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian language
classical language of India
language
belongsToBranch Dravidian languages
surface form: Telugu–Kui branch
belongsToCulturalRegion Andhra Pradesh
surface form: Andhra region

Telangana
surface form: Telangana region
earliestKnownInscriptionCentury 6th century
hasGrammaticalFeature SOV word order
agglutinative morphology
honorific forms
postpositions
rich case system
hasISO6391Code te
hasISO6392Code tel
hasISO6393Code tel
hasLiteraryTraditionSinceCentury 11th century
hasMajorDialect Telugu self-linksurface differs
surface form: Coastal Andhra Telugu

Godavari dialects
Telugu self-linksurface differs
surface form: Hyderabadi Telugu

Rayalaseema Telugu
Telugu self-linksurface differs
surface form: Telangana Telugu
hasNotablePoet Nannaya
Sri Krishnadevaraya
Tikkana
Tyagaraja
Yerrapragada
surface form: Vemana

Yerrapragada
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
retroflex consonants
hasScriptDerivedFrom Brahmi script
hasScriptHistoricallyRelatedTo Kannada script
hasStandardFormBasedIn Coromandel Coast
surface form: Coastal Andhra region
hasWritingSystem Telugu alphabet
isOfficialLanguageOfUnionTerritory Puducherry (parts)
surface form: Puducherry (Yanam region)
isOneOf 22 scheduled languages of India
languageFamily Dravidian languages
surface form: Dravidian
nativeName తెలుగు
officialLanguageOf Andhra Pradesh
Telangana
primaryCountry India
recognizedAsClassicalLanguageBy Government of India
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn Chhattisgarh
Karnataka
Maharashtra
Andhra Pradesh
surface form: Odisha

Puducherry (parts)
surface form: Puducherry

Tamil Nadu
Yanam
region Andhra Pradesh
South India
South India
surface form: Southeast India

Telangana
scriptUnicodeBlock Telugu (U+0C00–U+0C7F)
spokenIn Australia
Canada
India
Kuwait
Malaysia
Mauritius
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States
subfamily South-Central Dravidian
usedAsMediumOfInstructionIn schools in Andhra Pradesh
schools in Telangana
usedIn Tollywood film industry
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Telugu script
writingSystemType abugida

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Gandipet languageSpoken Telugu
medieval India language Telugu
subject surface form: Medieval India
Laad Bazaar languageUsed Telugu
Manikonda primaryLanguage Telugu
Telangana and Andhra Pradesh officialLanguage Telugu
subject surface form: Telangana
Blue Line hasLanguageOfSignage Telugu
subject surface form: Blue Line (Hyderabad Metro)
Asaf Jah III languageUsed Telugu
Afzal Gunj languageSpoken Telugu
Shankar languageOfUse Telugu
Dangal languageVersion Telugu
Ravi Shankar Prasad Pandey (Ravi Kishan, birth surname) languageOfWorkOrName Telugu
subject surface form: Ravi Kishan
Anglo-Indians language Telugu
Secunderabad language Telugu
Star Maa language Telugu
Sourashtra language hasNeighbouringLanguageInfluence Telugu
this entity surface form: Telugu language
Sourashtra language hasLoanwordsFrom Telugu
this entity surface form: Telugu language