Introduction to the Telugu Language

26.02.2019 - 01.03.2019

4-day-course by Jens Knüppel | Institute of Indology and Tibetology, University of Munich

An Introduction to the Telugu language

4-day-course, 26 February to 1 March, 2019

For students of South Asian Studies and interested people

Teacher: Jens Knüppel | Institute of Indology and Tibetology, University of Munich


Telugu is the biggest of the Dravidian languages of South India, spoken by 81 million people in the Indian states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, with sizeable minorities in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Telugu has a 1000-year-old literature. It also is the language of classical South Indian music and has a reputation to be ‘sweet’ and very singable.


The course will be conducted free of charge.
Sponsored by the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, Vienna.

Venue: Seminarraum 3, Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.1, 1090 Wien.

Please apply until 15 January to one of the organizers:

  • Jens Knüppel, j.knueppel@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
  • Dr Stephan Popp, lecturer for Urdu, Vienna University, stephan.popp@univie.ac.at, stephan.popp@gmx.net,
  • Krisztóf Szitár, lecturer for Urdu, Budapest, zitarkristof@gmail.com.
Organiser:
Stephan Popp | ISTB
Location:
Seminarraum 3 of the ISTB, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.1, 1090 Wien