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Countries
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Countries
Andra Pradesh, India, Telangana, Yanam 0

Total No. Of Countries
4 11

National Language
Andra Pradesh, India 0

Second Language
Karnataka 0

Speaking Continents
Asia 0

Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu 0

Regulated By
Telugu Academy and Official Language Commission of Government of Andhra Pradesh 0

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.
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Similar To
Tamil 0

Derived From
Sanskrit Language 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
Telugu-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
60 35

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
19 16

How Many Consonants
41 30

Scripts
Telugu Script 0

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal 0

Hard to Learn
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Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 11

Greetings
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Hello
హలో (Halō) 0

Thank You
ధన్యవాదాలు (Dhan'yavādālu) 0

How Are You?
నువ్వు ఎలా ఉన్నావు? (Nuvvu elā unnāvu?) 0

Good Night
శుభ రాత్రి (Śubha rātri) 0

Good Evening
శుభ సాయంత్రం (Śubha sāyantraṁ) 0

Good Afternoon
శుభ మద్యాహ్నం (Śubha madyāhnaṁ) 0

Good Morning
శుభోదయం (Śubhōdayaṁ) 0

Please
దయచేసి (Dayacēsi) 0

Sorry
క్షమించాలి (Kṣamin̄cāli) 0

Bye
బై (Bai) 0

I Love You
నేను నిన్ను ప్రేమిస్తున్నాను (Nēnu ninnu prēmistunnānu) 0

Excuse Me
క్షమించండి (Kṣamin̄caṇḍi) 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Waddar 0

Where They Speak
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra 0

How Many People Speak
170,000.00 39

Dialect 2
Chenchu 0

Where They Speak
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa 0

How Many People Speak
26,000.00 41

Dialect 3
Manna-Dora 0

Where They Speak
Andra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu 0

How Many People Speak
30,000.00 32

Total No. Of Dialects
38 28

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
80.00 million 20

Speaking Population
1.15 % 15

Native Speakers
75.00 million 14

Second Language Speakers
5.00 million 29

Native Name
తెలుగు (telugu) 0

Alternative Names
Andhra, Gentoo, Tailangi, Telangire, Telegu, Telgi, Tengu, Terangi, Tolangan 0

French Name
télougou 0

German Name
Telugu-Sprache 0

Pronunciation
Not Available 0

Ethnicity
Telugu people 0

History
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Origin
c. 575 0

Language Family
Dravidian Family 0

Subgroup
Not Available 0

Branch
Not Available 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
Early Telugu epigraphy 0

Standard Forms
Telugu 0

Language Position
15 14

Signed Forms
Not Available 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
te 0

ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
tel 0

ISO 639 2/B
tel 0

ISO 639 3
tel 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
telu1262 0

Linguasphere
No data available 0

Types of Language
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Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb 0

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available 0

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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.

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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.

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