出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/08/01 10:23 UTC 版)
Telugu (తెలుగు telugu, IPA: [t̪elugu]) is a language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh and the district of Yanam, India, where it is an official language. Also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu, it is the language with the second largest number of native speakers in India (74 million as of 2001) and thirteenth in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide. It is one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India and one of the four classical languages.