Telugu Christians or Telugu Kraistava are a religious community who form the third-largest religious minority in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and...

largest number of first-language speakers in India today, serves as the lingua franca across much of northern and central India. However, there have been...

languages, regional lingua francas, foreign and additional languages, heritage languages, languages in the religious domain, English as a lingua franca, and sign...

language, such as national, literary, liturgical or scientific idiom, or a lingua franca, used to facilitate communication across a large area. As a border...

a lingua franca in the Eastern Roman Empire, remains in use today as a sacred language in some Eastern Orthodox churches. Latin became the lingua franca...

and vocabulary influences from Marathi, Kannada, and Telugu, due to its prolonged use as a lingua franca in the Deccan. A non-exhaustive list of its unique...

Telugu is an agglutinative language with person, tense, case and number being inflected on the end of nouns and verbs. Its word order is usually subject-object-verb...

exclusively in English. English is also the preferred lingua franca of urban Christian youth. The music of Telugu Christians consists mostly of hymns. The Andhra...

language and is one of the biggest film industries in the country. In 2021, Telugu cinema became the largest film industry in India in terms of box-office...

as well as mixed languages like Fanakalo (a pidgin language used as a lingua franca in the mining industry), and Tsotsitaal or S'Camtho, an argot that...