Telugu Alphabet

128 Pages·2007·3.31 MB·English

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Telugu Alphabet
Telugu Learning Kit
Workbook for Module 1
C P Brown Academy
The Alpha Foundation
Hyderabad
Telugu Alphabet Learning Kit Workbook for Module-1
Transliterator: G Ramesh Babu
Managing Editor: GRK Murty
Consulting Editor: SS Prabhakar Rao
Editorial Support:
C Rama Devi, Y Anand
T Rajendra Prasad
Chief Visualizer: A Bangaru Babu
Visualizer: S Ganesh
Illustrations: B Anjaneyulu
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Foreword
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The Module-1, “Telugu Varnamala”, is intended to help the Telugu
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speakers, who cannot read/write Telugu, to pick up a reasonable level of
linguistic competence, through Roman script. The symbols used in this
book are intended to facilitate the transliteration template of the vowels,
consonants, gunintamulu and the vowel-consonant clusters, i.e., vottulu.
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The relationship of the Roman character with the Telugu letter and its
pronunciation have been clearly explained with examples to aid phonetics.
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For instance, the symbol ‘a’ stands for the Telugu letter ‘ ’ that sounds
like ‘o’ as in the word ‘come’. Let us take another example. The symbol
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‘c’ stands for the Telugu letter ‘ ’ that sounds like ‘ch’ as in the word
‘church’. The Module-1 is thus quite self-explanatory and is certain to
help those who desire to learn Telugu through the medium of English.
The workbook provided along with it is scientifically designed for practice
to help the learners pickup reading and writing of Telugu, satisfactorily.
We know that some of the alphabet and their sounds are difficult to
pronounce and quite a few are not in popular use. They do not even matter
in the acquisition of linguistic skills. However, we have included all the
Telugu letters irrespective of their usage in order to introduce them all to
the learners.
Enjoy!
SS Prabhakar Rao
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TELUGU ALPHABET
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J VoPwels ( : AWcculu) D
– –
*a a i i
come far bit feel
L T
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u u– ru ru–
. .
wood cool .rus.i root
Z U S
– –
.lu .lu e e ai
look loop get stake mite
X F B
o o– au
rotate oat out
JO Jó
am ah
. .
some half
J
* ‘a’ stands for ‘ ’ and sounds like ‘o’ as in ‘come’. The same pattern applies to all other vowels.
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Consonants ( Hallulu)
36 Characters
Hõ Y QÆ Ñ¶¨∞ V
.
k kh g gh n
*
Î Î
.
silk kh-aki go ghost prajna
K« Kè« [
[
K«
.c c ch .j j
- -
.capa church witch .jabili jug
&
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~
jh n
- ~
jhansi sanjna
@ ~î° _» _è» }
t th d dh n
. . . . .
- - - -
t.ake nilakant.ha bird as.ad.ha pran.a
`« ^äŒ ^Œ ^èŒ #
t th d dh n
-
tabala thumb though dhoti nature
Hõ
* ‘k’ stands for ‘ ’ and sounds like ‘k’ as in ‘silk’. The same pattern applies to all other consonants.
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p ph b bh m
cup phone bat bharat month
Ü«∞ ~° Å à◊
y r l l
.
- - -
young rust lump ka.limata
= â◊ +¨ ã¨
v s´ s. s
levy s´a-stry ship sun
é
Ç¨Ï Hõ∆
h ksh r
.
home raksha error
Semi-Vowels or Semi-Consonants
(((((LÉÜíè ∂« H~∆õ åÅ∞:::::
– –
Ubhayaksharalu)
(ã∞¨ #fl O (J~ã° ∞¨ #fl ñ (qã~¨ æ° ó
– – -
= Sunna) = Arasunna) = Visarga)
Note: Five Telugu characters are not in general use.
KÍ« [Í |∞∂
They are
- -
.lu .lu .c .j r.u
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JK∞« ÛÅ∞ U q^OŒè QÍ „"åÜ∂« e?
How to write Vowels?
–
a a
come
far
–
i i
bit feel
–
u u
wood cool
ru
.
rusi
. .
–
ru
.
root
7
-
e e
get stake
ai o
mite rotate
- au
o
oat out
am
.
some
ah
.
half
8
ÇϨ Å∞Å¡ ∞ U q^OŒè QÍ „"åÜ∂« e?
How to write Consonants?
k kh
–
silk khaki
g gh
go ghost
.
n
.
prajna
c ch
church witch
j jh
–
jug jhansi
~
n
~
sanjna
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t th
. .
–
take nilakant.ha
d dh
. .
bird – –
asadha
. .
n
.
–
prana
.
t th
tabala
thumb
d dh
though dho–ti
n
nature
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