Re: On telangANA telugu
M.B.Srinivas (babu@ds5500.cemr.wvu.edu)
Wed, 5 Mar 1997 10:37:15 -0500 (EST)
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> I think the reason Krishna/Guntur or Telugu is considered more
> standardas opposed to Warangal or Nellore Telugu is that they were
> more magazines and editors from that area at the beginning of this century.
being from Guntur, I could see the difference between Telugu of Guntur,
and some parts of WG and the Telugu in Warangal(I was there for 4 yrs)..
lot of my friends from Telangana never used to understand some words and
they used to make fun of some (to be frank, it worked both ways, though..)
for ex: nails, inapa mekulu, they used to call something else, which
means very much different in Gun,Kri..gradually I could pickup that
version of Telugu also..
> There are two terms related to marriage that I haven't heard anywhere
> else -- 'koTnamu' and 'bondu'. I don't know whether 'koTnam' is a
> corruption of the word 'kaTnamu' or it is meant to refer to a mini
I never heard of Kotnamu, but as far as I know, bondu means the rope kind
of thing that we use for Pyzamas..
Srinivas Madabhushi
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