The name Telugu, then, is a result of an 'n' to 'l' alternation established in Telugu. ДЄnother view holds that tenugu is derived from the proto-Dravidian word ten ('south') to mean 'the people who lived in the south/southern direction' (relative to Sanskrit and Prakrit-speaking peoples). If so the derivation itself must have been quite ancient because Triglyphum, Trilingum and Modogalingam are attested in ancient Greek sources, the last of which can be interpreted as a Telugu rendition of ' Trilinga'. George Abraham Grierson and other linguists doubt this derivation, holding rather that Telugu was the older term and Trilinga must be the later Sanskritisation of it. Brown made a comment that it was a 'strange notion' since the predecessors of Appa Kavi had no knowledge of such a derivation. Appa Kavi in the 17th century explicitly wrote that Telugu was derived from Trilinga. ДЄtharvana Acharya in the 13th century wrote a grammar of Telugu, calling it the Trilinga ЕљabdДЃnusДЃsana (or Trilinga Grammar). Older forms of the name include Teluб№…gu, Tenuб№…gu and Teliб№…ga. Speakers of Telugu refer to it as simply Telugu or Telugoo. 12.1 The Pre-Nannayya Period (before 1020 CE).2.5 Delhi Sultanate and Mughal influence.

Roughly 10,000 pre-colonial inscriptions exist in the Telugu language. It is also the fastest-growing language in the United States, where there is a large Telugu-speaking community. It is the most widely spoken member of the Dravidian language family and one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India. Telugu ranks fourth among the languages with the highest number of native speakers in India, with nearly 82 million speakers as per the 2011 census, and 15th in the Ethnologue list of languages by number of native speakers. Telugu was also referred as Andhramu (а°†а°‚а°§а±Ќа°°а°®а±Ѓ) It is one among the six languages designated as a classical language of India in the country. Telugu is also an official language in West Bengal, Yanam district of Puducherry and a linguistic minority in the states of Odisha, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Telugu ( / Л€ t Й› l КЉ ЙЎ uЛђ/ а°¤а±†а°Іа±Ѓа°—а±Ѓ, Telugu pronunciation: ) is a Dravidian language spoken by Telugu people predominantly living in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where it is also the official language. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Telugu is native to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

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