LANGUAGES
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The cities of
Hyderabad and Secunderabad from the times are influnced
by Mughal emperors and primary language spoken in the
region was Urdu. Now the main languages spoken in Twincities
are Telugu, Urdu, Hindi and English followed by Tamil,
& Marathi.
After these cities have became the domanian part of the
Andhra Pradesh State, Telugu is the principal and official
language of the State. Being the capital city and cosmopolitan,
Hyderabad has the influx of people migrated from different
states. These people are mostly who run business houses,
working in central industrial organisations and various
research institutions. With their influence Hindi is the
most spoken language and some parts of the city has the
colonies populated by Tamil speaking people. With all
these diverse cultures the Twincites are enduring itself
with celebrity of various vernacular languages.
Evolution of Telugu
Telugu was also referred to as `Tenugu' in the past. `Andhra'
is the name given to it since the medieval times. Some
argued that `Telugu' was a corruption of `Trilinga' (Sanskrit
meaning three `lingas'). A general description of the
land of the Telugu's was made in the medieval times as
`the land marked by three lingas of the three famous shrines
of Draksharamam (East Godavari district), Kaleswaram (Karimnagar
district) and Srisailam (Kurnool district).
Telugu is the most widely spoken language of the Dravidian
family which consists of 24 languages spanning the entire
South-Asia, from Baluchistan to Sri Lanka. In terms of
population, Telugu ranks second to Hindi among the Indian
languages. According to the 1991 Census, Telugu is spoken
by over 55 million in Andhra Pradesh. It has also spread
to the other parts of the globe, i.e., Burma, Indo-China,
South-Africa and the U.S.A. Being a mellifluous language,
it is called, by its admirers as the `Italian of the East'.
Its vocabulary is very much influenced by Sanskrit. In
the course of time, some Sanskrit expressions used in
Telugu got so naturalised that people regarded them as
pure Telugu words. Some Kannada and Tamil words were also
taken into Telugu but they did not gain much currency.
With the advent of the Muslim rule, several Persian and
Arabic words entered into the Telugu language. But they
were confined to the spoken language and to the language
of the judiciary and the executive. The influence of Persian
and Arabic is discernible to a considerable extent in
the languages spoken in Telangana due to its long association
with the Muslim rule.
The evolution of Telugu can be traced through centuries
in terms of its form as well as its function. Although
culturally Telugu is close to its southern neighbours
-- Tamil and Kannada -- genetically, it is closer to its
northern neighbours -- Gondi, Konda, Kui, Kuvi, Pengo
and Manda. There is evidence to show that these languages
were freely borrowed from Telugu even from the prehistoric
period where as borrowing between Telugu and Tamil and
Kannada has been mostly during the historic period, i.e.,
post-5th century B.C.
In 1984, the State Government has established Telugu University
for the development of the language under different faculties
and renamed later, 'Potti Sreeramulu University' who has
given his life for a separate state for Telugu speaking
people. Twincites has the pride having an University named
after Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Urdu University a few years
ago.
It's a city where nature combined with different languages
to create a laidback,down to earth life-style to create
a mesmarizing experience.
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