It is impossible to confirm the origin of a culture and the date of its origin. Different tribes, classes, and societies gradually combined over a period of time and a transformed society had evolved. This is the evolution of a society.
Andhras were nomads for several centuries. Earlier periods,theu used to habitate on the banks of yamuna river.Some of those Andhras who came to the south settled on the west side of Vindhya mountains (present Northern regions of Hyderabad). Another tribe crossed the Eastern Ghats over Orissa and reached the Kalinga Desam. Jataka tale explains that Andhras built the "ANDHAKAPURAM" on the banks of "Tel" (tEl) river.Tel river is a subriver of Mahanadi in Orissa. The people in this tribe are Kalingas (ka'Limgulu). Thus the Andhras and Kalingas as two different branches of a single tribe. Sometimes these two words (Andhras and Kalingas) are used as synonyms interchangeably.
Andhra tribes established relationships with Naga, Yaksha, and Dravida tribes of Vindhya mountains who already were living there then. Tenugu (tenugu) is the meaning for those who travel towards south. In Tamil and Kannada "ten" means south side (dakshina dikku).
Andhra society is one of the ancient societies of India. One can encounter several tales about Andhras in epics like Mahabharatam and Ramayanam, in great puranas, and Budhdhist Jataka Tales. This confirms the ancient nature of Andhra society.
Once upon a time Andhra province was described as the territory between
Kalahasthi in the South,
Srisailam in the West and
DRAKSHARAMA or Kotilinga Kshethram in the North.
The Telugu language gives prominence to 'Shiva' and unlike in other parts of India, the Telugu children start their Vidyabhiyasam, by reciting the 'Shivapanchaksharam ' which is an invocation to Lord Shiva.
Another peculiarity of the Andhra lipi, is unlike the Tamil lipi, the curvatures of the letters are towards the Vamabhagam or the left. And since Parasakthi is on the left side of Parameshwara, the letters used in the Srichakram for Parasakthi is always in Telugu.
Telugu (తెలుగు telugu, ) is a Dravidian language with the third largest number of native speakers in India (10crore ) and thirteenth in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide.
Telu means white and unga means plural in Gondi. So, telunga means people who are white in complexion.
Telugu was more influenced by Sanskrit and Prakrit during the period of 6th. A.D.,which corresponded to the advent of Telugu literature .
Onamaalu, or the Telugu alphabet consist of
60 symbols - 16 vowels, 3 vowel modifiers, and 41 consonants. Sanskrit and Telugu alphabets are similar and exhibit one-one correspondence. Telugu has complete set of letters which follows scientific system to express sounds. It is highly conducive for Phonetics. It has more letters than any Indian language. Some of them are introduced to express fine shades of difference in sounds.
Telugu has full-Zero or anusvāra( ం ), half-zero or arthanusvāra or Chandrabindu (ఁ) and Visarga to convey various shades of nasal sounds. la and La, ra and Ra are differentiated. Telugu has .CH and .JH which are not represented in Sanskrit, and S, SH, and KSH which are not found in Tamil.
Telugu script can reproduce the full range of Sanskrit phonetics without losing any of the text's originality.
Telugu, a language ending with vowels, giving it a mellifluous quality, was also considered suitable for musical expression. Of the trinity of Carnatic music composers, compositions of Tyagaraja and Syama Sastri compositions were largely in Telugu.
In writing, the sentence ends with either a single bar | (“purna viramam”) or a double bar || (“deergha viramam”).
There is a set of symbols for numerals, though Arabic numbers are typically used.
The first treatise on Telugu grammar, the "Andhra Sabda Chintamani" was written in Sanskrit by Nannayya and he divided his work into five chapters, covering
samjnā, sandhi, ajanta, halanta and kriya. Every telugu grammatical rule is derived from Pāṇinian concepts.
In 19th century, Chinnaya Suri wrote a simplified work on Telugu grammar called "Bāla Vyākaranam" by borrowing concepts and ideas from Nannayya's grammar.
"The primary word order of Telugu is SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) "
Telugu incorporates a high percentage of Sanskrit and English words. It also contains, to a lesser extent, Arabic and Persian words.
Telugu is assigned Unicode codepoints: 0C00-0C7F (3072–3199).[25]
