a
dravidian language that is on the verge of dying thanks to
telugu people who rather prefer to use either English or Telgish in daily life. Try to use
Telugu and you will meet uncomfortable stares that judge you as lame, uncool and low-class.
reasons for its
predicament :
1)if you consume old movies/movies, you can see educated and affluent class of people acting all
uppity by unnecessarily using English words to indirectly communicate their supposed "high-class" status. that was actual reality in 20th century. even others began to use Telgish to show those arrogant retards that it isn't a big deal to corrupt the beauty of Telugu. thus it became norm to rape Telugu to death.
2)unnecessary sanskritization. the modern standard telugu has tons of
Sanskrit loan words, even if many Telugu words having the same meaning are available. telugu scholars love importing Sanskrit words for higher concepts(and for even mundane things) instead of creating words in Telugu even though many famous Telugu
poets throughout history showed the potential of Telugu at describing higher concepts and
coining new words. thus the technical/scientific terms are all either loan words from Sanskrit or made from Sanskrit root words. many scholars justify this by saying they are enriching telugu.
3) lack of language based identity unlike other southern Indian states.
weirdly enough, telugu diasporas in other countries like USA, Canada show genuine interest towards telugu language and culture these days.