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TELUGU

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 577 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TELUGU , one of the five See also:

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

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