Telugu was more influenced by Sanskrit and Prakrit during this period, which corresponded to the advent of Telugu literature. During the next fifty years, Telugu inscriptions appeared in Anantapuram and other neighboring regions. This inscription, dated 575 AD, was found in the Rayalaseema region and is attributed to the Renati Cholas, who broke with the prevailing custom of using Sanskrit and began writing royal proclamations in the local language. Post-Ikshvaku Periodĥ75 AD to 1022 AD: The first inscription that is entirely in Telugu corresponds to the second phase of Telugu history. Their capital was Vijayapuri ( Nagarjunakonda). They ruled the eastern Andhra country along the Krishna river during the later half of the 2nd century CE. The Andhra Ikshvakus ( Sanskrit इक्ष्वाकु, Telugu ఇక్ష్వాకులు) succeeded Satavahanas and were one of the earliest recorded ruling dynasties of Andhra Pradesh. Telugu words appear in the Maharashtri Prakrit anthology of poems (the Gatha Saptashati) collected by the 1st century BCE Satavahana King Hāla. The English translation of one inscription reads: "Gift of the slab by venerable Midikilayakha". Inscriptions containing Telugu words dated to the 3rd century BCE were discovered in Bhattiprolu in Guntur district. Epigraphic evidence suggests that during the Andhra Satavahana dynasty, the rulers spoke Prakrit while the general population spoke an early form of Telugu. The earliest traces of Telugu are found in late BCE inscriptions. The Sātavāhana Empire (Telugu: శాతవాహన సామ్రాజ్యము) or Andhra Empire, was a royal Indian dynasty based from Amaravati.
History Andhra Empire or Satavahana Dynasty So, telunga means people who are white in complexion. Telugu has also been known as "Tenungu", "Tenugu" and "Telungu," which were all popularized by Nannayya and Tikkana.Īccording to Marepalli Ramachandra Sastry, Telu means white and unga means plural in Gondi. Trilinga Desa forms the traditional boundaries of the Telugu region. Trilinga Desa is the land in between these three Shiva temples namely Kaleshwaram, Srisailam and Draksharamam. According to a Hindu legend, Shiva descended as linga on three mountains namely, Kaleswara, Srisaila and Bhimeswara, which marked the boundaries of the Telugu country. It is thought to have been derived from trilinga, as in Trilinga Desa, "the country of the three lingas". The etymology of Telugu is not known for certain. 2.1 Andhra Empire or Satavahana Dynasty.Telugu borrowed several features of Sanskrit that have subsequently been lost in Sanskrit's daughter languages such as Hindi and Bengali, especially in terms of the pronunciation of some vowels and consonants. It has also been influenced by Urdu around Hyderabad. Telugu is the only literary Central Dravidian language, and it was heavily influenced by Sanskrit and Prakrit. It is one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India and one of the four classical languages. Telugu is the language with the third largest number of native speakers in India (74 million as of 2001) and thirteenth in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu.
Telugu ( తెలుగు telugu, IPA: ) is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without rendering support you may see irregular vowel positioning and a lack of conjuncts.