This document discusses the importance of Telugu literature and language. It notes that Telugu is a Dravidian language predominantly spoken in Andhra Pradesh, India. It also provides background on the history and evolution of the Telugu language from ancient to modern times. The document outlines the basic structure and components of the Telugu language, including its alphabet, pronouns, sentence structure, and digits. It concludes by expressing concern over the decreasing number of Telugu speakers and advocates for native speakers to preserve their mother tongue.

1. Importance of TELUGU literature
By: siva shankar pakkapati

2.  Telugu is a DRAVIDIAN LANGUAGE
predominantly spoken in the Indian state of
Andhra pradesh .
 It is also spoken by significant minorities in
the states Chattisgarh ,Karnataka ,Maharashtra
,Odisha .One of the five classical languages
of India, Telugu ranks third by the number

3.  The etymology of Telugu is not known for
certain.It is derived from the word TRILINGA
which mean the country of three lingas.
 According to Marepalli Ramachandra Sastry
“TELU” means white and “UNGA” means
plural in Gondi.

4.  post-ikshvaku period
 Middle ages
 Vijayanagara empire
 Muslim rule
 Colonial period
 Post independence period

5.  Mainly spoken in the state of AP, and
neighbouring states ( Tamilnadu, Karnataka,
Puducherry)
 More than 8,00,000 population of US also
speaks this language
 With 7.2% of the population telugu is 3rd most
spoken language in India

6.  Telugu words generally end in vowels similar
to pali language
 Sanskrit loans have introduced aspirated and
murmured consonants
 Telugu does not have contrastive stress ,and
speakers vary on where they perceive stress

7.  Inflection:
Telugu nouns are inflected for number (singular,
plural), gender (masculine, feminine, and neuter)
and case (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative,
vocative, instrumental, and locative).
Gender:
Telugu has three genders: masculine, feminine,
and neutral.

8.  Pronouns:
 Telugu pronouns include personal pronouns
Indefinite pronouns, relative pronouns and
reciprocal or reflexive pronouns
 Sentence రాము బడికి వెళ్తా డు.
 Words రాము బడికి వెళ్తా డు.
 Transliteration rāmu baḍikiveḷtāḍu
 Gloss Ramu to school goes
 Parts Subject Object Verb
 Translation Ramu goes to school.

9.  The name Telugu written in the Telugu script
 Main articles: Telugu alphabet and Telugu braille
 Telugu script is written from left to right and consists of
sequences of simple and/or complex characters. The script is
syllabic in nature – the basic units of writing are syllables. Since
the number of possible syllables is very large, syllables are
composed of more basic units such as vowels and consonants .
Consonants in consonant clusters take shapes that are very
different from the shapes they take elsewhere. Consonants are
presumed to be pure consonants, that is, without any vowel
sound in them

10.  Telugu has its own digits, as shown below.
However, these aren't used commonly.
 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
 0 ౧ ౨ ౩ ౪ ౫ ౬ ౭ ౮ ౯
 sunna okati rendu muudu naalugu aidu
aaru eedu enimidi tommidi

11.  The Telugu alphabet consist of 60 symbols – 16
vowels, 3 vowel modifiers, and 41 consonants.
Sanskrit and Telugu alphabets are similar and
exhibit one-to-one correspondence. Telugu has
complete set of letters which follows scientific
system to express sounds. Some of them are
introduced to express fine shades of difference
in sounds.

12. As the foreign languages craze increasing day by
day the no.of Telugu speaking and using people
is decreasing drastically
As it is a concern situation for every language
which are on the edge of disappearance ,so every
native speaker should must need to take care
about their mother tongue