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Spoken by about 96 million people (2022), [7] Telugu is the most widely spoken member of the Dravidian language family, and one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India. [8] It is one of the few languages that has primary official status in more than one Indian state , alongside Hindi and Bengali . [ 9 ]
Telugu is the most widely spoken Dravidian language in India and around the world. Telugu is an official language in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Yanam, making it one of the few languages (along with Hindi, Bengali, and Urdu) with official status in more than one state. It is also spoken by a significant number of people in the Andaman and ...
The Telugu script is also widely used for writing Sanskrit texts and to some extent the Gondi language. It gained prominence during the Eastern Chalukyas also known as Vengi Chalukya era. It shares extensive similarities with the Kannada script , as both of them evolved from the Bhattiprolu and Kadamba scripts of the Brahmi family.
In Nepali, Hindi/Bihari, Bhojpuri, Maithili, Bengali, Telugu, and Odia languages, it is a means of calling with love and affection to spouses or younger brothers, sons, grandsons etc. It can be found in the urban trend to call "babu" to girlfriends or boyfriends, or common-friends to symbolize deep love or dearness.
Alternately, perhaps from mũg (मूँग), the name of the bean in Hindi, [33] which is not a Dravidian language. Orange, a citrus fruit, or a color named for the fruit; cognates exist in several Dravidian languages, [34] Tamil naaram (நாரம்) or Telugu naarinja (నారింజ) and others.
The end of a sentence or half-verse may be marked with the "।" symbol (called a daṇḍa, meaning "bar", or called a pūrṇa virām, meaning "full stop/pause"). The end of a full verse may be marked with a double-daṇḍa, a "॥" symbol. A comma (called an alpa virām, meaning "short stop/pause") is used to denote a natural pause in speech.
The text has been influential in the major Hindu literature that followed it. The popular Bhagvad Gita, the most translated of the Itihasa genre of literature in Hinduism, [11] for example, calls the Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam adage of the Maha Upanishad, as the "Loftiest Vedantic Thought".
The language family of the world that has the most speakers is the Indo-European languages, spoken by 46% of the world's population. [137] This family includes major world languages like English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, and Hindustani (Hindi/Urdu).