Editing Telugu language (section)

== Geographic distribution ==
{{Main|States of India by Telugu speakers}}
[[File:Telugu speakers in India.png|thumb|Geographic distribution of Telugu immigrants in light blue; Telugu is native to dark blue.]]
Telugu is natively spoken in the states of [[Andhra Pradesh]] and [[Telangana]] and [[Yanam (India)|Yanam]] district of [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]]. Telugu speakers are also found in the neighbouring states of [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Karnataka]], [[Maharashtra]], [[Odisha]], [[Chhattisgarh]], some parts of [[Jharkhand]], and the [[Kharagpur, West Bengal|Kharagpur]] region of [[West Bengal]] in India. Many Telugu immigrants are also found in the states of [[Gujarat]], [[Goa]], [[Bihar]], [[Kashmir]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[Punjab]], [[Haryana]], and [[Rajasthan]]. {{As of|2018}} 7.2% of the population, Telugu is the fourth-most-spoken native language in India after [[Hindi]], [[Bengali language|Bengali]], and [[Marathi language|Marathi]]. In [[Karnataka]], 7.0% of the population speak Telugu, and 5.6% in [[Tamil Nadu]].<ref name="Censusindia.gov.in">{{cite web |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-16.html |title=Census of India Website: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India |publisher=Censusindia.gov.in |access-date=22 March 2022 |archive-date=28 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728125958/https://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-16.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

There are more than 400,000 [[Telugu Americans]] in the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite news |date=March 2023 |title=Telugu population figure worldwide |newspaper=[[Ethnologue]] |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/tel}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=19 September 2018 |title=Almost Half Speak a Foreign Language in America's Largest Cities |url=https://cis.org/Report/Almost-Half-Speak-Foreign-Language-Americas-Largest-Cities |last1=Zeigler |first1=Karen |last2=Camarota |first2=Steven A. }}</ref> {{As of|2018}}, Telugu is the fastest-growing [[Languages of the United States|language in the United States]], (especially in [[Indians in New Jersey|New Jersey]] and [[Indians in the New York City metropolitan area|New York City]]), with the number of Telugu speakers in the United States increasing by 86% between 2010 and 2017.<ref>{{cite news|title=Do you speak Telugu? Welcome to America|publisher=BBC News|date=20 October 2018|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-45902204|access-date=24 December 2019|archive-date=13 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213071110/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-45902204|url-status=live}}</ref> {{As of|2021}}, it is the 18th most spoken [[Languages of the United States|native language in the United States]] and the third most spoken South Asian language after [[Hindi]] and [[Urdu]].<ref name="ACS2021">{{cite web |title=ACS B16001 |url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=B16001:+LANGUAGE+SPOKEN+AT+HOME+BY+ABILITY+TO+SPEAK+ENGLISH+FOR+THE+POPULATION+5+YEARS+AND+OVER&g=0100000US&tid=ACSDT1Y2021.B16001&moe=true |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=ACS B16001 |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau}}</ref> Minority Telugus are also found in [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], [[Bahrain]], [[Canada]], [[Fiji]], [[Malaysia]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[Singapore]], [[Mauritius]], [[Myanmar]], [[Europe]] ([[Italy]], the [[United Kingdom]]), [[South Africa]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]], and the [[United Arab Emirates]].<ref name=":102"/><ref name=":11">{{cite book |last1=Rajan |first1=S. Irudaya |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jm21DwAAQBAJ&dq=telugu+people+gulf&pg=PA281 |title=India's Low-Skilled Migration to the Middle East: Policies, Politics and Challenges |last2=Saxena |first2=Prem |date=10 October 2019 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-981-13-9224-5 |language=en |access-date=14 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013130925/https://books.google.com/books?id=jm21DwAAQBAJ&dq=telugu+people+gulf&pg=PA281 |archive-date=13 October 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>