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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Andra Pradesh, India, Telangana, Yanam

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

4
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

Andra Pradesh, India

1.4 Second Language

Karnataka

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia

1.6 Minority Language

Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu

1.7 Regulated By

Telugu Academy and Official Language Commission of Government of Andhra Pradesh

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • Telugu is the only language in the Eastern world that has every single word that ends with a vowel sound. Telugu language is called "Italian of the East".
  • Telugu is one of the oldest language in India which is 2,400 years old.

1.9 Similar To

Tamil

1.10 Derived From

Sanskrit Language

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

60
Rank: 35 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

19
Rank: 16 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

41
Rank: 30 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Telugu Script

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

హలో (Halō)

3.2 Thank You

ధన్యవాదాలు (Dhan'yavādālu)

3.3 How Are You?

నువ్వు ఎలా ఉన్నావు? (Nuvvu elā unnāvu?)

3.4 Good Night

శుభ రాత్రి (Śubha rātri)

3.5 Good Evening

శుభ సాయంత్రం (Śubha sāyantraṁ)

3.6 Good Afternoon

శుభ మద్యాహ్నం (Śubha madyāhnaṁ)

3.7 Good Morning

శుభోదయం (Śubhōdayaṁ)

3.8 Please

దయచేసి (Dayacēsi)

3.9 Sorry

క్షమించాలి (Kṣamin̄cāli)

3.10 Bye

బై (Bai)

3.11 I Love You

నేను నిన్ను ప్రేమిస్తున్నాను (Nēnu ninnu prēmistunnānu)

3.12 Excuse Me

క్షమించండి (Kṣamin̄caṇḍi)

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Waddar

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

170,000.00
Rank: 39 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Chenchu

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

26,000.00
Rank: 41 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Manna-Dora

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Andra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

30,000.00
Rank: 32 (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

38
Rank: 28 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

80.00 million
Rank: 20 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

1.15 %
Rank: 15 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

75.00 million
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

5.00 million
Rank: 29 (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

తెలుగు (telugu)

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Andhra, Gentoo, Tailangi, Telangire, Telegu, Telgi, Tengu, Terangi, Tolangan

5.3.4 French Name

télougou

5.3.5 German Name

Telugu-Sprache

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Telugu people

6 History

6.1 Origin

c. 575

6.2 Language Family

Dravidian Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Not Available

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Early Telugu epigraphy

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Telugu

6.3.3 Language Position

15
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

te

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

tel

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

tel

7.3 ISO 639 3

tel

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

telu1262

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Telugu

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Telugu Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Telugu Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Telugu. Telugu phonology gives Telugu vowels and Telugu consonants. There are 19 vowels and 41 consonants in Telugu language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Telugu is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Telugu language is given in detail in this section.

All Telugu countries

Want to explore all Telugu countries? About Telugu language serves you with all Telugu Speaking Countries. Countries that use Telugu as official language are called as Telugu countries.

  • Countries that use Telugu as their National Language are: Andra Pradesh, India.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Telugu as second language are: Karnataka.

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Learn Telugu greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Telugu Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Telugu language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Telugu language.Learn Telugu greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: హలో (Halō)
  • Thank you: ధన్యవాదాలు (Dhan'yavādālu)
  • Good Morning: శుభోదయం (Śubhōdayaṁ)
  • Good Evening: శుభ సాయంత్రం (Śubha sāyantraṁ)
  • Good Afternoon: శుభ మద్యాహ్నం (Śubha madyāhnaṁ)

All Telugu Language Codes

Get to know all Telugu language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Telugu Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.