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Telugu

Telugu \Tel`u*gu"\, n.

  1. A Darvidian language spoken in the northern parts of the Madras presidency. In extent of use it is the next language after Hindustani (in its various forms) and Bengali. [Spelt also Teloogoo.]

  2. One of the people speaking the Telugu language.

Telugu

Telugu \Tel`u*gu"\, a. Of or pertaining to the Telugu language, or the Telugus.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Telugu

Dravidian language of southern India, 1731.

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Telugu

Telugu (also spelled Telegu) may refer to:

  • Telugu language, a major Dravidian language spoken in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
  • Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language
    • Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode
  • Telugu people, an ethnolinguistic group of India
Telugu (Unicode block)

Telugu is a Unicode block containing characters for the Telugu, Gondi, and Lambadi languages of Andhra Pradesh, India. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0C01..U+0C4D were a direct copy of the Telugu characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

Usage examples of "telugu".

Though the easy-to-follow assembly holo was indeed in five languages, they turned out to be Telugu, Swahili, Pashto, Malayalam and Hakka.

The Boyis are Telugus, and are employed as bearers of palanqueens and other domestic service in Southern India.