Brown made a comment that it was a 'strange notion' since the predecessors of Appa Kavi had no knowledge of such a derivation. Appa Kavi in the 17th century explicitly wrote that Telugu was derived from Trilinga. Atharvana Acharya in the 13th century wrote a grammar of Telugu, calling it the Trilinga Śabdānusāsana (or Trilinga Grammar). Older forms of the name include Teluṅgu, Tenuṅgu and Teliṅga. Speakers of Telugu refer to it as simply Telugu or Telugoo.

12.4 Nannaya Bhattarakudu or Adi Kavi (1022–1063 CE)Ĭlass=notpageimage| Locations of Trilinga Kshetras.

12.1 The Pre-Nannayya Period (before 1020 CE).

2.5 Delhi Sultanate and Mughal influence.

Roughly 10,000 pre-colonial inscriptions exist in the Telugu language. It is also a protected language in South Africa and is offered as an optional third language in schools in the KwaZulu-Natal province. It is also the fastest-growing language in the United States, where there is a large Telugu-speaking community. With nearly 81 million native speakers as per the 2011 census, Telugu is the fourth most spoken language in India and 15th in the world in the Ethnologue list of languages by number of native speakers.

It is also spoken by members of the Telugu diaspora spread across countries like United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand in the Anglosphere Myanmar, Malaysia, South Africa, Mauritius and the Arabian Gulf countries of UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia etc. Telugu is also a linguistic minority in the states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, West Bengal, and the union territories of Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Telugu is one of six languages designated as a classical language (of India) by the Government of India. It is one of the few languages that has primary official status in more than one Indian state, alongside Hindi and Bengali.

It is the most widely spoken member of the Dravidian language family and one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India. Telugu ( / ˈ t ɛ l ʊ ɡ uː/ తెలుగు, Telugu pronunciation: ) is a classical Dravidian language spoken by Telugu people predominantly living in the Telugu states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where it is also the official language. List of languages by number of native speakers in India Constitutionally recognised languages of IndiaĢ2 Official Languages of the Indian RepublicĮighth Schedule to the Constitution of India

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