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Countries

Andra Pradesh, India, Telangana, Yanam

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 11 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Andra Pradesh, India

Second Language

Karnataka

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

Telugu Academy and Official Language Commission of Government of Andhra Pradesh

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.

Similar To

Tamil

Derived From

Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 35 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 16 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 30 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Telugu Script

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

హలో (Halō)

Thank You

ధన్యవాదాలు (Dhan'yavādālu)

How Are You?

నువ్వు ఎలా ఉన్నావు? (Nuvvu elā unnāvu?)

Good Night

శుభ రాత్రి (Śubha rātri)

Good Evening

శుభ సాయంత్రం (Śubha sāyantraṁ)

Good Afternoon

శుభ మద్యాహ్నం (Śubha madyāhnaṁ)

Good Morning

శుభోదయం (Śubhōdayaṁ)

Please

దయచేసి (Dayacēsi)

Sorry

క్షమించాలి (Kṣamin̄cāli)

Bye

బై (Bai)

I Love You

నేను నిన్ను ప్రేమిస్తున్నాను (Nēnu ninnu prēmistunnānu)

Excuse Me

క్షమించండి (Kṣamin̄caṇḍi)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Waddar

Where They Speak

Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra

How Many People Speak

170,000.00

Rank: 73 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Chenchu

Where They Speak

Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa

How Many People Speak

26,000.00

Rank: 87 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Manna-Dora

Where They Speak

Andra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu

How Many People Speak

30,000.00

Rank: 73 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 28 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

80.00 million

Rank: 20 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

1.15 %

Rank: 16 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

75.00 million

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million

Rank: 51 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

తెలుగు (telugu)

Alternative Names

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

French Name

télougou

German Name

Telugu-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈteluɡu]

Ethnicity

Telugu people

History

Origin

c. 575

Language Family

Dravidian Family

Subgroup

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

Early Telugu epigraphy

Standard Forms

Telugu

Language Position

Rank: 14 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Telugu

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

tel

ISO 639 2/B

tel

ISO 639 3

tel

ISO 639 6

tel

Glottocode

telu1262

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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.