Telugu
Dravidian language native to South India
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Summary
Telugu is a natural language[1]. Telugu ranks in the top 2% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15,834 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: India[3]
- Instance of: modern language[4]
- Subclass of: Dravidian[5]
- Writing system: Telugu[6]
- Part of: Classical Languages of India[7], Schedule languages of India[8]
- Commons category: Telugu language[9]
- Wikimedia language code: te[10]
- Coordinate location: 15.5, 80[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Telugu language[12]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 82,000,000[13], 74,244,300[14], 50,000,000[15], 5,000,000[16]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18]
- Has characteristic: Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation in Telugu[19]
- Native label: తెలుగు[20]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[21]
- Indigenous to: Andhra Pradesh[22], Chhattisgarh[23], Karnataka[24], Maharashtra[25], Odisha[26], Puducherry[27], Tamil Nadu[28], Telangana[29]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/TEL[30]
- Has grammatical case: causal case[31]
- Ethnologue language status: 2 Provincial[32]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[33], agglutinative language[34], fusional language[35]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[36]
- Has grammatical gender: feminine[37], masculine[38], neuter[39]
Why It Matters
Telugu has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] Telugu is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]
Telugu has been cited as an influence by Globasa[42], an international auxiliary language[43], founded in 2019[44].
FAQs
Who did Telugu influence?
Telugu has been cited as an influence by Globasa[42].