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Dravidian languages include Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, and a number of other languages spoken mainly in South Asia. The list is by no means exhaustive. Some of the words can be traced to specific languages, but others have disputed or uncertain origins. Words of disputed or less certain origin are in the "Dravidian languages" list.
Sri Suryaraya Andhra Nighantuvu is a Telugu language dictionary. It is the most comprehensive monolingual Telugu dictionary. [1] It was published in eight volumes between 1936 and 1974. [2] [3] It was named after Rao Venkata Kumara Mahipati Surya Rau, the zamindar of Pitapuram Estate who sponsored the first four volumes of the dictionary. [4] [5]
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym , with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
A contronym is a word with two opposite meanings. For example, the word original can mean "authentic, traditional", or "novel, never done before". This feature is also called enantiosemy, [1] [2] enantionymy (enantio-means "opposite"), antilogy or autoantonymy. An enantiosemic term is by definition polysemic.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Telugu on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Telugu in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Telugu is an agglutinative language with person, tense, case and number being inflected on the end of nouns and verbs. Its word order is usually subject-object-verb, with the direct object following the indirect object. The grammatical function of the words are marked by suffixes that indicate case and postpositions that follow the oblique stem.
An illustration of dhoti-clad sepoys (soldiers), recruited into the British Indian military. The dhoti is considered to be the male counterpart of the sari, worn by females to religious & secular ceremonies . [9] [10] [11] A pitambar is a yellow silk dhoti worn on auspicious occasions.
Tenglish (Telugu: తెంగ్లిష్ (teṅgliṣ)), refers to the code-mixing or code-switching of the Telugu language and Indian English. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two languages and has been variously composed.