Telugu Basha Aatma Kadha-1

“Desa bashalandhu Telugu lessaa” -- Sri Krishna Devarayalu

Have you ever come across this sentence? If you are a Telugu you might have came across this sentence more than once like me. I have heard this, read this sentence but never wondered what the history behind this language is. Never thought beyond learning and reading as a mother tongue (No time for this kind of work...) But for the last three weeks (after 24 yrs [:)]) I was kind of doing research on this topic "History of Telugu”.. Was it the only language spoken in Trilinga Desam? How did it come in to existence? What’s the literature in it? ……………………………… o gone in to this world .
If you think there is a need for knowing these things continue to read this post or you know it better what to do :P
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Anaganaga oka desam .. Its name is Trilinga Desam . the region which is in between three jyothirlingas was called so. There were many tribes living here from the begining (very long time there was a mention about this in MahaBharatam as well)... some of them are Gondi,Konda ,Kui,Manda,Parji ,Gadaba ,Kolami ,Pengo,Naiki ,Kuvi ,Tenugu .. all had there own language which belong to proto Dravidian family and were in some form similar to Telugu (or Tenugu..)

Over a period of time Tenugu was the language much more spoken among the common public and this language evolved to what we know today as Telugu.
Even though Telugu was spoken commonly, the official language (in some BC periods and till may be 500 - 600 AD ) was 'Prakrut' which is similar to Sanskrit. All the Royal declarations etc were in this language. There are few inscriptions found recently which show that around 100BC few kings used Telugu on inscriptions.

Similarity between Kannada and Telugu script is largely because of the Pallava rulers who ruled both the regions.

To be continued..........