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Alphabet & Pronounciation

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Telugu
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==Alphabet & Pronounciation==
Telugu is written in its own alphabet, called తెలుగు లిపి (Telugu lipi), an abugida from the Brahmic family of scripts. As such, every syllable is formed by a consonant, either alone or carrying a distinctive mark representing the vowel, or a special mark indicating no vowel at all. Other consonants can be added to the beginning of a syllable. Besides that, each vowel has an independent form to be used when not preceded by a consonant.

Some examples to illustrate the building of syllables in Telugu:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
| అ || a
|-
| బ || ba
|-
| బ్ || b
|-
| డ || da
|-
| డ్ || d
|-
| బ్డ || bda
|-
| డ్బ || dba
|-
| అబ్ || ab
|-
| అడ్ || ad
|-
| అడ్బ్ || adb
|-
| అబ్డ్ || abd
|-
| బబ్ || bab
|-
| డడ్ || dad
|-
|}

Long vowels have their own letters, usually a modified or extended version of the short vowel.

Some consonants have special forms to be used in conjunct with other consonants. Ex.:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
| త || ta
|-
| క || ka
|-
| త్క || tka
|-
| క్త || kta
|-
| ర || ra
|-
| క్ర || kra
|-
| ర్క || rka

|}

Several consonants can come in a cluster. This is very common in the writing of English words. E.g.:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
| స్త్రక్త్స్ || strakts, "structs"
|}

You can see below how such a complex syllable is composed.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
| style="padding:1ex;"| స || sa
|-
| style="padding:1ex;"| త || ta
|-
| style="padding:1ex;"| స్త || sta
|-
| style="padding:1ex;"| త్ర || tra
|-
| style="padding:1ex;"| స్త్ర || stra
|-
| style="padding:1ex;"| అక్ || ak
|-
| style="padding:1ex;"| అక్త్ || akt
|-
| style="padding:1ex;"| అక్త్స్ || akts
|-
| style="padding:1ex;"| సక్ || sak
|-
| style="padding:1ex;"| స్తక్ || stak
|-
| style="padding:1ex;"| స్త్రక్ || strak
|-
| style="padding:1ex;"| సక్త్ || sakt
|-
| style="padding:1ex;"| సక్త్స్ || sakts
|-
| style="padding:1ex;"| స్తక్త్ || stakt
|-
| style="padding:1ex;"| స్తక్త్స్ || stakts
|-
| style="padding:2ex;"| స్త్రక్త్స్ || strakts

|}

==Nouns==
===Gender===
Although Telugu has three genders, viz. masculine, feminine and neuter, but these are more semantic than grammatical. I.e., words representing male living beings are usually masculine, words representing female living beings are usually feminine, and words representing inanimated objects are usually neuter. This is not absolute, though, as there are masculine and feminine words representing inanimate objects as well.

The most prominent effect of gender is the use of different pronouns and verb forms, which usually have one form for masculine and another form for feminine and neuter.

===Number===

===Case===

===Definiteness===

===Inflection Models===

==Adjectives==
===Gender===

===Number===

===Case===

===Definiteness===

===Inflection Models===

===Degree===
====Comparative====

====Superlative====

==Pronouns==
===Personal===

===Possessive===

===Interrogative===

===Indefinite===

===Relative===

==Numerals==
===Cardinal Numbers===

===Operations===

===Measures===
====Time====

====Age====

====Size, Length &c.====

===Ordinal Numbers===

===Fractions===

==Verbs==
===Person & Number===

===Tense===

===Mood===

===Voice===

===Verb Classes===

===Negative===

===Interrogative===

===Conjugation Models===
====Regular Verbs====

====Irregular Verbs====

==Adverbs==
===Time===
===Place===
===Manner===
===Frequency===
===Negation===
===Others===

==Prepositions==

==Conjunctions==

==Word Order==

==Subordinate Clauses==

[[Category:Grammars]]

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