Progress Of Indic Languages Vs English - 2

[Bharatvarsh]

Telugu can be divided into 3 broad dialects, Rayalaseema, Andhra, and Telangana, while most of the vocabulary is common there seem to be some Tamil words in Rayalaseema dialect, while Telangana has many Urdu words due to Nizam rule.

While searching for info on dialects, I came across a few articles claiming some unique identity for Telangana dialect due to the Urdu words, to me that just seemed sheer nonsense, the dialect most likely existed long time before Muslim rule without any Urdu words.

If we go beyond the superficial nonsense of Urdu words, what we will see in the remaining vocabulary some word differences and also pronounciation differences, I will list a few examples mainly from Telangana and Andhra dialects since I can speak both.

1) Black = karri (Telangana)/nalupu (Andhra)
2) Bones = bokkalu (Telangana)/boyikalu or emukalu (Andhra)
3) Money = paisalu (Telangana)/ dabbulu (Andhra)
4) Run = uruku (Telangana)/ parugu/lagetthu (Andhra)
5) Girl = pOri (Telangana)/pilla (Andhra)
6) Marriage = pendli (Rayalaseema)/peLLi (Andhra)
7) Buffalo = barre (Telangana)/gEdhe (Andhra)
8) like = lekka (Telangana)/laagaa (Andhra)
9) Boy = pOrOdu (Telangana)/pillagaadu (Andhra)
10) Well = baayi (Telangana)/baavi or nuyyi (Andhra)
11) Brother = thammi (Telangana)/thammudu (Andhra)
12) Ear rings = kammalu (Telangana)/pOgulu (Andhra)

These are some examples, they are the words generally dominant in the areas, doesn't necessarily mean that people don't use the other word, also many of the words are known in all areas and most importantly all 3 dialects are mostly intelligible with each other as long as you have a good grasp of Telugu, Tenglish kinds may have trouble.