Editing Telugu language (section)

===Colloquial speech<ref>a study of telugu regional and social dialects: a prosodic analysis by j. venkateswara sastry</ref>===

* In some colloquial speech ṇ, ḷ might completely merge with n, l except in clusters with retroflex plosives.
*In Standard Telugu and most dialects ś is pronounced as s, while Telanganan dialects merge ś to ṣ. eg. iṣṭam, dēśam > istaw̃, dēsaw̃/dēṣaw̃.
* Non initial and particularly final m tends to be [w̃].
* Initial kṣ tend to be kś before front vowels and kṣ/ṭṣ before other in educated speech, ch for uneducated speech; medially tts(h) for all.
* Cluster simplification, eg. viplavam, amlam, raktam, anyāyam > yipalavaw̃, āw̃alaw̃, rattaw̃, annēyaw̃.
* va, vā becomes (w)o, {ā, ō} initially, eg. vāḍu > āḍu/ōḍu. Before front vowels the v becomes y, eg. vennela > yennela.
* Some aspirates might be debuccalized to a h while previous actual h's might be deleted, eg. mukham, mahā > muhaw̃/mugaw̃, mā.
*Telanganan speech tend to have less aspirated consonants.
* Palatalization, eg. madhyāhnam > majjhānaw̃/majjhēnaw̃.
* ph, ts, dz > f, s, j.
* Differences in suffixing, eg. kannu-lu > Coastal kaḷḷu, Rayalseema kaṇḍḷu/kaṇḷu, Telangana kanlu.
* Sri Lankan Telugu too lacks ṇ, ḷ, merges c with s and has vowel alternations like i instead of final -u, perhaps due to Tamil and Sinhalese influence.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/41175429|title=Sri Lanka Gypsy Telugu: A Dravidian Dialect from Sri Lanka's Sinhalese Heartland|first=Steven C.|last=Bonta|accessdate=23 February 2025|via=www.academia.edu}}</ref>