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1) An ethnolinguistic group native to south-central India. (Indian is not an ethnicity, it's a nationality because there was no concept of the country of India before the year 1947, whereas the Telugus as an ethnicity have existed for thousands of years). It's said that they're directly descended from a group called the Proto-Dravidians having some Indo-Aryan blood in them via intermarrying, with more Dravidian blood than Aryan, respectively. The Indian states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are considered to be the homeland or motherland of the Telugu people. 2) A Dravidian language, descended from Proto-Dravidian, however, most of its formal vocabulary comes from Sanskrit (just like English is descended from Proto-Germanic, most of its formal vocabulary comes from Greek and Latin).
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