Editing Telugu language (section)

== Dialects ==
[[File:Andhra Pradesh districts map.svg|thumb|Andhra Pradesh before [[Bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh|bifurcation]] (1956–2014)]]
{{Main|Telangana dialect}}
There are four regional dialects in Telugu:<ref name="A Grammar of Modern Telugu">{{cite book |last1=Bhadriraju |first1=Krishnamurti |title=A Grammar of Modern Telugu |last2=Gwynn |first2=J.P.L. |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1985 |location=New Delhi |pages=xvii-xviii}}</ref>

* Western : [[Telangana dialect|Telangana]]
* Southern: [[Rayalaseema]]
* Central: [[Coastal Andhra]]
* Northern : [[North Andhra]]

Colloquially, [[Telangana]], [[Rayalaseema]] and [[Coastal Andhra]] dialects are considered the three Telugu dialects and regions.<ref name="CaffarelMartin2004">{{cite book|last1=Caffarel|first1=Alice|last2=Martin|first2=J. R.|author-link2=J.R. Martin|last3=Matthiessen|first3=Christian M. I. M.|author-link3=C.M.I.M. Matthiessen|title=Language Typology: A Functional Perspective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vJGjDlLPQ_IC&pg=PA434|access-date=19 November 2016|year=2004|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing|isbn=978-1-58811-559-1|page=434|archive-date=13 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013131948/https://books.google.com/books?id=vJGjDlLPQ_IC&pg=PA434|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Waddar language|Waddar]], [[Chenchu language|Chenchu]], and [[Manna-Dora language|Manna-Dora]] are all closely related to Telugu.<ref>{{glotto|telu1265|Teluguic}}</ref> Other dialects of Telugu are Berad, Dasari, Dommara, Golari, Kamathi, Komtao, Konda-Reddi, Salewari, Vadaga, Srikakula, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, Rayalaseema, Nellore, Guntur,  Vadari Bangalore, and Yanadi.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/tel |title=Telugu |publisher=Ethnologue |access-date=30 March 2016 |archive-date=19 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819015319/https://www.ethnologue.com/language/tel |url-status=live}}</ref>