ABSTRACT
Telugu, spoken by 79.2 million people, is the official language of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The language exhibits two styles, literary and colloquial, even during early Telugu. The differences became pronounced from the eleventh century onwards poets maintained an archaic literary style while prose inscriptions some commentaries, chronicles and devotional songs reflected the spoken form. Modern Telugu has four regional dialects: Northern, Southern, Eastern and Central. A present continuous or durative finite verb with present and past meanings is formed by adding the finite inflection. Nominal compounds are extensively used in Telugu. Compound formation is more productive and frequent than creating new words with derivational suffixes. All verb suffixes that combine with verb roots are divided into three groups: those whose main variants begin with a consonant, those whose main variants begin with a front vowel and those whose main variants begin with a back vowel.
