Wikijunior talk:Languages/Telugu

Contradictory material on the script
The following material was in the article before I reorganized it. It seems contradictory and I wasn't able to verify any of it. I thought it best to bring it to the talk page where it can be improved and replaced in the article if necessary. There other problem though is that much of it is probably too complex for a Wikijunior section. - Taxman (talk) 13:17, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * The Telugu alphabet is called "Onamaalu". The word derived from "Om namah shivaya" the starting words in the prayer to Lord shiva. Between the 10th and 14th centuries, Shaivism (Hindus who believe Shiva as the supreme god) was more prevalent in Andhra Pradesh, the Telugu speaking land of India and the teachers used to start their lessons with a prayer to lord Shiva with "Om namah shivaya siddam namaha". Gradually these words became O- na- maa-lu.


 * The alphabet of telugu is called as "Aksharamala". And this aksharamala is divided into three parts.
 * 1)Atchulu
 * 2)hallulu
 * 3)samyuktaksharalu.
 * "Atchulu" in telugu refers to the vowels in english. and "hallulu" refers to consonants in English. This Telugu aksharamala comprises of 56 letters. Achulu constitutes 15 letters and hallulu constitutes 38 letters and samyuktaksharalu constitutes 3 letters. every letter belongs to "atchulu" is called as "atchu". And the letter belongs to hallulu is called as "hallu". These hallulu(consonants) can be pronouced and written in different ways using some manipulations to the hallu. these manipulated hallus are called as "guninthalu" in telugu.