Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Something to ponder upon: TELUGU

Something to ponder upon:

TELUGU

For those whose mother tongue is Telugu, Who loves Telugu and who wants to know something about Telugu. Interesting Facts of Telugu Language

1. Telugu Language was known to exist since the Time period 400 BCE.

2. In 2012 Telugu has been voted as the 2nd best script in the world by International Alphabet Association, Korean ranks no 1.

3. Speaking Telugu Language activates about 72000 neurons in your body, highest for any Language in the world proven by Science.

4. An ethnic group from Sri Lanka called Sri Lankan Gypsy people mostly speak Telugu.

5. There are many many Telugu communities in Myanmar Just do a Google Search.

6. In 16th century an Italian Explorer Niccolò de’ Conti found that the words in Telugu language end with vowels, just like those in Italian, and hence referred it as “The Italian of the East”.

7. Telugu ranks 3rd by the number of native speakers in India (75 million people), and 15th in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide.

8. Telugu derived from trilinga, as in Trilinga Desa, “the country of the three lingas”. According to a Hindu legend, Shiva descended as a linga on three mountains: Kaleswaram in Nizam, Srisailam in Rayalaseema and Bhimeswaram in Kostha.

9. Telugu is the only language in the Eastern world, that has every single word ending with a vowel sound.

10. Telugu language has the most number of सामितलु i.e., idioms and proverbs.

11. Telugu language previosuly also known as Tenungu or Telungu.

12. Rabindranath Tagore is said to have stated that Telugu is the sweetest of all Indian Languages.

13. About 200 Years ago about 400 people Telugu speaking people were taken to Mauritius as plantation workers, now Prime Minister is one of their descendants.

14. A Palindrome of 40 slokas which when read from start to end is Ramayana and end to start Mahabharata, there is no other Language like this.

15. Sri Krishnadevaraya visited this temple in Srikakulam and paid homage to the deity. It was here that Krishnadevaraya wrote the literary classic, Amuktamalyada at the order of the Lord Andhra Vishnu who had said “Des Bhashalandu Telugu Lessa” (Telugu is the greatest among the state’s languages”) and ordered Sri Krishnadevaraya to adopt Telugu as the official language of his province.

16. We have a single lettered poem in Telugu also called ekakshara padhyamulu
Often said by all Greatest Saints that...Telugu language is greatest boon from Creators.

Be proud to Be a Telugu person.

Source - Whatsapp Message

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