09-17-2007, 12:48 AM
Most AP Muslims are in Hyd, many of them cannot speak Telugu or even if they do you can tell them apart from the way they talk, the Muslims in Rayalaseema or Coastal Andhra (very few) are the ones that may speak good Telugu and finally no Muslim I knew ever used nomu (they spoke Telugu with me but with an accent) and I knew quite a few in my younger days.
Under the Nizam, Telugu, Marathi and Kannada were supressed as Hindu languages and Urdu imposed, this is why you see many more Farsi/Arabic words in Telangana dialect of Telugu than the other two major ones (coastal andhra and rayalaseema).
Under the Nizam, Telugu, Marathi and Kannada were supressed as Hindu languages and Urdu imposed, this is why you see many more Farsi/Arabic words in Telangana dialect of Telugu than the other two major ones (coastal andhra and rayalaseema).