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Telugu

Телугу

language area per Glottologcensus counts
81,127,740
India, 2011 (mother tongue)
Dravidian
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

Main language: Telugu. Glottolog classifies it in the Dravidian family.

Official figures from other countries

Figures from different countries do not add up: censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry). The type is shown on each figure.

India · 2011
81,127,740
Category as printed: «Telugu»mother tongue
[1] Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India

Languages and their lineage

Telugu

  1. Dravidiandrav1251
  2. South Dravidiansout3133
  3. South Dravidian IIsout3139
  4. Teluguictelu1265
  5. Telugutelu1262

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

Tamils

Sources

  1. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Census of India 2011, Language, India, States and Union Territories (Table C-16), Statement 4: Scheduled languages in descending order of speakers' strength. https://cdn.downtoearth.org.in/library/0.58521300_1530794876_census-of-india-2011.pdf
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)