Like everybody else I love my mother tongue. Telugu is my mother tongue.
Relax guys I'm not going to teach you Telugu.I'm just going to talk about it.
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As you all know Telugu is a dravidian language. But people constantly compares it withTamil which is also dravidian language. They say Tamil is mother of Dravidian languages and telugu is just a sub language of tamil. I just what to say that every language is unique in its own way. Tamil is older, royal, have many single letter words, great vocabulary and doesn't depend on any other languages and on other hand telugu is very sweet , poetic, has beautiful grammar but it is slightly influenced from sanskrit( we have our own words too but we won't forgot that).
I think Telugu is under rated language. I will tell you why Telugu is under-rated and telugu speaking people are not taken seriously.
●Telugu is an Ajanta language (words end with vowels) and people make fun of it but that makes telugu the musical language and not to forgot Telugu is also called Italian of the east. British before leaving India suggested Telugu language as national language to Indian government.
●We have 3 dialects coasta telugu in Coastal Andhra,seema telugu in Rayalaseema and Telangana in Telanagana state (it will have arabic touch because of Nawabs who ruled Telangana for many years), each district have a sub-diaelect (yāsa in telugu) and people are judged by their dielect (even telugu people judge).
●Telugu is easy to learn(spoken part). So for us (I mean telugu speaking people) it is takes more time to learn a new language ( because other languages are not that easy to learn ) than what a other takes. So we teach others telugu and speak in telugu. So we are called unprofessionals. But for a matter of fact, take any industry and you will find atleast 1 telugu person in their top 10 employees or professional. And we trust easily and get fooled.
● I don't why but many people think that telugu people are dumb people.
● Wattpad translation is not available for Telugu language
And there are many stereotypes about Telugu and Telugu speaking people.
I will tell you the greatness of Telugu.
●Majority of developed languages (which have a written script, well-developed grammar and some literature) in the world have two forms of literature: prose and poetry ( or verse). There are very few languages which have rules for poetry, like poetic meter aka Chandasu (vedic meter), which is one of the original 'six limbs' of Vedas.
Telugu is one of the very few Indian languages which has a set of extensive set of rules of poetic meter (more than just rhyming); comparing it to Hindi (no offense) which prominently features Chaupai (4-liner) and Doha (2-liner); Telugu may have upto a few dozen varieties of these, which range from merely rhyming the last letters to complex "chandas" forms with 8 lines that should only be followed by a poem belonging to another meter but for speakers of Telugu, "Seesamu" should always be followed by "aata-veladi" or "theta-geethi". (In 10th standard we have to do exercises on them,but I used to forgot the rules which are in form of poem. You can google it).
●Telugu is one of the few languages which has Avadhana art where there are 8 questioners in "Ashta-avadhana" and 100 questioners in "Shata-Avadhana" and 1000 in "Sahasra-Avadhana". The focus is mostly on "samasya-pooranam" -- making poems using the letters/lines given by questioner on their own terms. ( At first I thought Avadhana was there only in telugu but I googled and then realised it is there in kannada and Chandasu was also there in Kannada).
But now Ashta-avadhana,the beautiful poetry (acc to me) is fading away slowly.
● The language has changed completely from that early age to what it is now but still it is an Ajantha Language. For instance, one of the earliest inscriptions used the word "nagabu" for snake; that appears to be a proto-Telugu rendition of the (currently considered) orthodox Telugu word, "naagamu", for an animal that lives on a hill (naga in Sanskrit), which could mean either a snake or elephant (you can see the word remaining in part in the contemporary Telugu word for an elephant, eenugu). As a native Telugu speaker, I've always found this astounding.
●Despite Carnatic music being spread over the entire south India, most poet-composers of all the languages often write in Telugu and Sanskrit as they are more "Musical" owing to the vowel-ending property of words in these languages.
•Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali polymath once heard telugu poetry and said "is this language or music". I think it is true. Just like Telugu, Bengali is also musical and a Bengali praising other language is very rare.But unlike Telugu, Bengali is recognised worldwide( may be because bengali's are more in number). Acc to one of the survey's held by UNESCO, Bengali is the sweetest language in the world and Telugu was not even mentioned in the list. This is also one of the reason why I think Telugu is under-rated . Bengali isn't a Ajantha language but still it sounds sweet and delicate Rashogollas masqueraded as words revolving around you.But then Bengalis you ask yourself, why is it so sweet? Is there something fishy about it? (pun intended)
I know I'm here to talk about Telugu but after Telugu I love Bengali very much. I'm a fan of Satyajit Ray and Rabindranath Tagore. (Once tried in vain to read Professor Shonku's story in Bengali).
•Tamil poet Bharatiyar praised the Telugu language as 'Sundara Telugu'(Beautiful Telugu) .
•SriKrishna Devaraya, South Indian king and non-native speaker of Telugu said "Desabhaashalandu Telugu Lessa"( which means Telugu is the best among all the languages in this country) . Krishna Devaraya was a polylinguist and did many contributions to telugu language (Many people think that Krishna Devaraya is native Telugu. I admire him a lot. Seach about him, you'll know why I'm saying that).
● Telugu has the most number of idioms and proverb(saamethalu and nanudilu), which also have a superb structural construction based on prose, pattern, sound, rhythm, and rhyme. Not stopping there, most of these are funny, tongue-in-cheek, yet can be immensely philosophical, and candidly true!
Before u ask me I'll stop my lecture. But not before saying some facts about Telugu.
●The andhra people themselves call their language Telugu or Tenugu. This word is generally supposed to be a corruption of Trilinga, It is explained as meaning the country of the three lingam.
●Telugu is third largest spoken language in India after Hindi and Bengali(considering both native and non native speakers)
●Telugu is the most spoken Dravidian Language including non-native speakers.
●Telugu is fifteenth largest spoken language in the world.
● Telugu loans from Sanksrit , it retains some of the features that have subsequently been lost in some of Sanskrit's daughter languages such as Hindi and Bengali , especially in the pronunciation of some vowels and consonants
● Telugu language is one of the six classical languages of India (others being Tamil, Sanskrit, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia).
●It is one language in India whose vocabulary is extensively derived from two great language families of India which together account to languages spoken by 97% of the population, namely Sanskrit (Indo-Aryan) and Dravidian. The vocabulary of few regions (eg: Telangana) also draws upon Persian-Arabic languages.
●Telugu speakers are more in number than the french.
●There is a well established Telugu Library in Yangon, Myanmar. It is called as Vemana Library.
Okay.. Okay I will stop blabbering.
The above one is not intended to hurt anyone's ideas. This one is purely my view.
I wrote this in 3 hours. I think I've to improve a lot.
Like I said I will update random things for random reasons, so I'll update on random things.
