This work in which the popular dialect of the Telugu spoken in the Northeren circars is allowed to hold its proper position, treats, first, of the form and sound of the letters, the combination of letters into syllables, with a spelling vocabulary containing in alphabetical order, words of one letter and of two, three, or four letters together with a series of familiar and useful phrases; secondly, of the inflections of nouns, pronouns and verbs with their derivation, thirdly, of the construction of words and idioms and lastly, permutation of letters with a few exercises, all tending to prepare the student for the study of the elaborate and learned works of Messers A. D. Campbell, C. P. Brown and J. C. Morris which are valuable additions to the store of oriental philology.
If this little book should contribute to lighten the labour of the student, the author will not regret the time and pains he has spent in its compilation.
