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The author, having been nominated to a seat at the Board of Superintendence for the College, had frequent opportunities of observing the disadvantage under which the Teloogoo students laboured, from the want of a work on the elements of that language. An attempt to remove this impediment was a duty which the author’s situation in some degree imposed; and actuated by this motive, as well as by a desire to rescue the Teloogoo from the undeserved neglect in which its great difficulty had involved it, and to extend among his countrymen the knowledge of a language spoken by a large portion of the native subjects of the British Government in the South of India, he proceeded to arrange the notes, on the native grammars of the language, which he had taken to assist his own studies, in the form which they have assumed in the following pages. The language of which a Grammar is now offered to the public is commonly, but improperly, termed by Europeans the Gentoo. It is the Andhra of Sanscrit authors, and, in the country where it is spoken, is known by the name of the Triling, Teling, Teloogoo, or Telugu. Being a native Telugu, it helped him a lot to know how Telugu has changed just in 200 years. This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
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ISBN : 9788121243834
Pages : 286
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