PREFATORY NOTICE.
This small volume containing the principles of the Telugu language is submitted to the candour of the judicious public, leaving it to recommend itself by the unassuming pretensions of obvious utility.
The object of this compilation, is, as far as practicable, to remove the obstacles which impede the first steps in the acquirement of this beautiful and elegant Language by furnishing the student with a progressive series of easy and familiar lessons in its popular dialect as it is spoken and written by the natives of the Northern circars.
It is a known fact that the Northern circars especially Vizagapatam, is the seat of the purest Telugu. Towards Madras, it becomes mixed with the Tamil and other dialects. On the Coromandel coast, it yields to the Tamil, and in Bellary, Cuddapa and Mysore, it is amalgamated with the Canarese and Hindustany while in the district of Ganjam, it becomes incorporated with Ooriya.
