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Telugu literature or Telugu Sahityam ((テルグ語:తెలుగు సాహిత్యం)) is the body of works written in the Telugu language. It consists of poems, novels, short stories, dramas and puranas. Telugu literature can be traced back to the early 11th century period when Mahabharata was first translated to Telugu from Sanskrit by Nannaya. It flourished under the rule of the Vijayanagar empire, where Telugu was one of the empire's official languages. Telugu split from Proto-Dravidian between 1500-1000 BC. So, Telugu became a distinct language by the time any literary activity began to appear in the Tamil land, along with Parji, Kolami, Nayaki and Gadaba languages.〔(Telugu Split from Proto-Dravidian )〕 Apparently Andhras adopted a form of Prakrit which, in course of development, became the immediate ancestor of Telugu literature. Literary texts in Telugu may be lexically Sanskrit or Sanskritized to an enormous extent, perhaps seventy percent or more and every Telugu grammatical rule is laboriously deduced from a Sanskrit canon. Prakrit and Telugu alphabet are similar and exhibit one on one correspondence.〔(Telugu Alphabet )〕 ==Alphabet== All the Telugu alphabet (known as Akshara mala) written using Telugu script are carved out of a circle. There are 56 Telugu letters that are currently in use. The vowels in Telugu are called Ach/Achchulu or Swaraalu and the consonants in Telugu are called Hal/Hallulu or Vyanjanamulu. Literary Telugu has complete set of letters which follows scientific system to express sounds. It is highly conducive for Phonetics. It has more letters than any Indian language. Some of them are introduced to express fine shades of difference in sounds.〔 Telugu has full-Zero or anusvāra (ం 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Telugu literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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