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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.
Appa-kavi's Appakavīyamu is a work on grammar, and scholars Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman call him "perhaps the most influential grammarian in Telugu". Only two chapters of this text survive - those on phonology and metrics.
In Andhra Kaumudi, a Telugu grammar book, it was mentioned that Andhra Vishnu, having built an immense wall connecting the three mountains with the Mahendra hills, formed in it three gates, in which the three-eyed Ishwara, bearing the trident in his hand and attended by a host of divinities, resided in the form of three lingams.
Nannaya was the first to establish a formal grammar of written Telugu. This grammar followed the patterns which existed in grammatical treatises like Aṣṭādhyāyī and Vālmīkivyākaranam but unlike Pāṇini, Nannayya divided his work into five chapters, covering samjnā, sandhi, ajanta, halanta and kriya.[14]
And if they do, then the phonology must be done linguistically and not in the sense of traditional grammar. The consonant and vowel charts should match those in the main article Telugu language, not be your creation. Typically there are separate article for "grammar" and for "phonology", if justified. --Taivo 07:17, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
It is among the most influential dictionaries in Telugu language. [2] [3] It was published under the direction of Madras School Book and Vernacular Literature Society. The dictionary was reprinted more than 10 times. [4] The words in the dictionary are followed by a symbol indicating the source language as well as the part of speech. [2]
His thesis Telugu Verbal Bases (1961) is the first comprehensive account of comparative Dravidian phonology and derivational morphology of verbal bases in Dravidian from the standpoint of Telugu. His comprehensive grammar on koṃḍa or Kūbi is a monumental work in the area of non-literary Dravidian languages. [ 8 ]
Telugu is hypothesised to have originated from a reconstructed Proto-Dravidian language. It is a highly Sanskritised language; as Telugu scholar C.P Brown states in page 266 of his book A Grammar of the Telugu language: "if we ever make any real progress in the language the student will require the aid of the Sanskrit Dictionary". [67]