Historically, Telugu was the third most widely spoken language in British India, boasting 1.7 crore native speakers, as per the 1881 Census. However, by the 2011 Census, it dropped to fourth place, ...

HYDERABAD: A lot of change is happening in Telugu language as new words are borrowed from other languages and then used as part of Telugu. This should only help to enrich the language and not lead to ...

Hyderabad: The Central Board of Film Certification has recirculated the list of cuss words in Telugu to be followed by filmmakers. The list contains more than 30 Telugu words including nayala, mushti ...

Languages often repurpose old words, or recombine them to make new ones; sometimes they just borrow them from other languages. Language scholars see this as the natural evolution of living languages.

Hyderabad: A researcher at the IIIT-H has developed the largest computational version of the Telugu dictionary. The researcher, Ms Sreekavitha Parupalli, at 21, is one of the youngest to receive her ...