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Encyclopedia Britannica



TELUGU

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 577 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TAV-THE
TELUGU , one of the five
great
  Dravidian languages. The word is probably derived from Trilinga (=the three lingas of Siva), a name for the old Hindu kingdom of Andhra. It was at one time called by Europeans " Gentoo," from a Portuguese word meaning Gentile. The Telugu-speaking peoples are partly subjects of the nizam of Hyderabad and partly under British
rule
 , beginning north of
Madras
  city and extending N.W. to Bellary, where Telugu meets
Kanarese
 , and N.E to near
Orissa
 . They are taller and fairer than the Tamils, other-wise they are of typical Dravidian features. They are an enter-prising
people
 , good farmers and skilful
seamen
 . They formed the greater
part
  of the early
Madras
  or "
coast
  " army, whence sepoys even in Bengal were formerly called telingas. In 1901 the number of speakers of Telugu in all India was nearly twenty-one millions.


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