Telugu Alphabet Telugu Learning Kit

Telugu Alphabet

Telugu Learning Kit

Module 1

The Module-1, “Telugu Varnamala”, is intended to help the Telugu

speakers, who cannot read/write Telugu, to pick up a reasonable level of

linguistic competence, through Roman script. The symbols used in this

book are intended to facilitate the transliteration template of the vowels,

consonants, gunintamulu and the vowel-consonant clusters, i.e., vottulu.

The relationship of the Roman character with the Telugu letter and its

pronunciation have been clearly explained with examples to aid phonetics.

For instance, the symbol ‘a’ stands for the Telugu letter ‘J’ that sounds

like ‘o’ as in the word ‘come’. Let us take another example. The symbol

‘c’ stands for the Telugu letter ‘K«’ that sounds like ‘ch’ as in the word

‘church’. The Module-1 is thus quite self-explanatory and is certain to

help those who desire to learn Telugu through the medium of English.

The workbook provided along with it is scientifically designed for practice

to help the learners pickup reading and writing of Telugu, satisfactorily.

We know that some of the alphabet and their sounds are difficult to

pronounce and quite a few are not in popular use. They do not even matter

in the acquisition of linguistic skills. However, we have included all the

Telugu letters irrespective of their usage in order to introduce them all to

the learners.

Enjoy!