You turn your eyes away when I look at you You cover your glances with your eyes You stare at an invisible God without blinking but when I stand infront of you ignore me Your glance is golden, Srivalli and your words are costly like ruby Your glance is golden, Srivalli and your words are costly like ruby Hello friends! today we will talk about a language which in my opinion is one of the musical languages of India Telugu Tamil? Not Tamil, Telugu Yeah, same thing How different are Tamil and Telugu? As much different Punjabi and Bihari are Ah, i se It is not just I who says Telugu is a musical language In the book "The man who knew infinity" the author writes Ramajunan's native language was Tamil one of a family of Dravidian languages that includes Malayalam, Canarese,
and the musical-sounding, ~Telugu~." Hindi, Bangla, Marathi,
and then, Telugu is the fourth-most spoken language of India Telugu is also the fastest
growing language of the United States. Telugu speakers have seen a rise
of about 150% in the last six years. you will find Telugu admirers just about everywhere in 1420s When Italian an Italian explorer
Niccolò de' Conti came to India he was so mesmerized with the Telugu language he called it the Italian of the east. Tagore had once commented listening Telugu Is this a language or a music? Carnatic music style has inspiration from Telugu Telugu Kirtans are so popular that even today in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka's
temples, Telugu Kirtans are performed. Tamil poet, Bhartiar captured the beauty of Telugu, beautifully in his Tamil song- You could say that the status Bengali has in north India being considered to be a sweet language the same status Telugu has down south The emperor of Vijaynagar empire Sri Krishnadevaraya was also a huge admirer of the Telugu language He was principally a speaker of Tulu and Kannada But when he had to write his first epic poem Amuktamalyada he chose Telugu when he was asked "Bro, you are a Kannada speaker, why did you choose Telugu?" he replied So friends In this video we shall try to understand what is it about the Telugu language that made so many people its fans what is this musicality whose everybody was a fan of Alright, let's start The first thing we notice about Telugu is that every word here ends in a vowel *reads words* these are all vowel endings In Telugu, consonants are called Hallulu and vowels are called Achchulu and because every word ends with an Achchulu Telugu is also called the Achu+ending language or, the Ajanta language For this reason, it is so easy to compose poems in Telugu Since the end sound of each word can only be a vowel probability that any two Telugu words rhyme with each other is pretty high For example I hope you can intuitively feel how Telugu is designed specifically for poetry This is also why Nicolo di Conti considered Telugu to be the Italian of the East because Italian also shows this vowel ending property Both also use a lot of these tti or chi sounds Linguistically Telugu belongs to the Dravidian family - the same family Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam belong to A lot of people ask a valid question Telugu has so many Sanskrit words If you read a Telugu Keertan, you will find a ton of Sanskrit words So how can we say Telugu has no connection with Sanskrit? I hear y'all You can't trust nouns in linguistics to classify languages We have to look at deeper parts of the language Note how the words for two in all Sanskritic languages is dwi Do Dui Don But in the Dravidian languages it has the root Rendu Rendu Irandu irandu Similarly the root for 4 is chaar or chatur in Sanskrit while in Dravidian it is naal root for singing is gaan in Sanskrit and paatu in Dravidian country is desh in Sanskrit and naadu in Dravidian thus we infer the core of Telugu is principally Dravidian all Dravidian languages originate from the common base Proto-Dravidian Some believe that this Proto-Dravidian was the same as Old Tamil but we can't say for sure so I'll use the term Proto-Dravidian in this video From this family, in India extended two branches Central and Southern Southern gave rise to Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada Central gave rise to Kui, Gond, Tond, Pengo, and Telugu In the central branch, only Telugu could emerge as a literary language Even though Telugu did not originate from Sanskrit, it did play a big role in developing the Telugu culture Telugu is like a pyramid with a Dravidian base and a Sanskritic top Just like how English by base is Germanic with a Latin top Telugu therefore has two versions of each word Modern Telugu mixes and mashes Dravidian and Sanskrit so well you cannot tell which is which You looked at me mischeviously You take over me How do I stop you? Dialectically Telugu has three variations First, coastal Telugu also called Andhra Telugu this is the Sanskritised Old Telugu version The coastal variety is the standard while technically Sanskrit is an external addition Telugu never saw Sanskrit as an impurity In fact, Telugu willingly absorbed a lot of Sanskrit within itself The process of mixing Sanskrit in Telugu was a two phase process in the first phase, it happened via Prakrit and probably Maharashtri Prakrit between 200BC to 300AD during the Satvahana period words were flowing from Sanskrit to Telugu via Prakrit In comparision, in Malayalam, Sanskrit was injected directly so a brick which in Telugu is ittuka in Malayalam is Ishtika ittuka is Prakrit, ishtika is Sanskrit second phase happened 700 years later When the literary legend Nannaya was commisioned to work on the Andhra Mahabharatam a retelling of the original in Sanskrit He was first of many poets and scholars who would start shaping Telugu in the image of Sanskrit new styles came in for ex, AM is written in the Champu style which is basically a prose-poetry combo there's a lot of Champu in Odissi music We see the amalgamation of Sanskrit and Dravidian cultures in the Telugu alphabet system as well The Telugu alphabet system has letters to express both Sanskrit and Dravidian words The orange circled letters: Kh, Gha, Jha, Tha, dha, tha, Pha have all come from Sanskrit and Prakrit Note that these are all aspirant sounds Pure Sanskrit gave letters like Nw, Ny, Sh, Shh We use these to only write Sanskrit words Like Jnanam Vowels wise these: Hr, Hrr, Lx, Lxx also came from Sanskrit Telugu also have two letters Dzh and Ts from Maharashtri Prakrit We can say that because no other language has these sounds Ratsa kurupunnolle nidaroye velallona
In a time where people with a terrible disease are sleeping happily aasha kurupochi ade ara nimisham nidarode
I, infested with a desire for you, could not sleep for even half a minute Gunzukunna / I have pulled you in ninnu yedaloke / into my heart inka yennallaki eederuno ee bathuke / Till when should I swim the sea of this life On the other hand, while Telugu has a letter for normal R There are two more letters; one is called Bandi Ra which is used to denote Rr its a double r used in words like Rrampapu like a chainsaw and Rrampapu chepa like sawfish and also Gurramu meaning horse People these days write Rr as R there's also another letter for sound zh [curl your tongue back, don't touch the roof] Tami-Zh It also shows up in Kozhikode and Pazham it looks like Bandi Ra (Rr) but has a circle In some inscriptions they have also found this mysterious letter we don't really know the name for this but some think this made the sound Rrr like a triple heavy rrr sound Rest of the sounds can be considered as pure Telugu sounds Telugu also has two more vowels that don't exist in Hindi e and o these are shorter versions of ey and oh you can write them in Devanagari like this 1300-1600 was the golden time for Telugu literature It was the time of the Vijaynagar empire who commissioned poets and scholars to compose works they continued the work started by the Chalukya dynasty (the one who commissioned Nannaya) Because Vijaynagar empire was so huge there was a lot of interaction between Karnataka and Andhra Until the fall of the Vijaynagar empire, the same script was used to write Telugu and Kannada The two scripts of Telugu and Kannada look almost identical Maybe not as similar as Bengali and Assamese but pretty close Kannada script is like a cursive Telugu script Like Akbar had navratnas (9 talented gems), Krishnadevaraya had 8 talented folks called ashtadiggajalu meaning the 8 elephants During this time, the concept of Avadhanam was introduced in Telugu culture Avadhanam is like a poetic battle of one performer called Asthadhyayi against 8 other seasoned poets The questions can be about miscellaneous topics sounds a lot like UPSC Something that is unique to Telugu is its gender system If you have watched our how language shapes gender video you would already know this while in North, they have Masculine-Feminine classification and in South, masculine feminine neuter Telugu goes a different direction with masculine and non-masculine categories After interacting with Sanskrit, Old Telugu softened very much like Bengali Old Telugu had lot of consonant clusters and retroflexes (T, D, L) which dissolved with time In English or Hindi, verbs can have limited transformations