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Telugu language policy is an issue within the state of Andhra Pradesh, where it is the first language of 93% of the population. Telugu language advocates note a lack of incentivisation and government support for the language, and press for their linguistic rights for Telugu's greater recognition and promotion through government mechanisms. ==Present status== Telugu teaching as a subject in the primary, secondary and college education is not compulsory. The medium of education need not be Telugu in primary and secondary school education. This lax language policy is encouraging English medium schools. Educated Telugu people are slowly losing capability of reading and writing in Telugu in the era of internet. In some English medium schools, speaking in Telugu with fellow students is meted out with corporal punishment by the school teachers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Girl caned for speaking Telugu in school )〕 Telugu news papers and periodicals are very popular compared to English papers and periodicals in the ratio of 10:1. Hardly 10% of English educated people can comfortably read English newspapers and understand comprehensively. There are nearly 60 number Telugu TV channels covering issues and social needs of worldwide Telugu people. However, there is only one English TV channel (CVR English) particularly aimed at Telugu or Andhra Pradesh people. There are few national level dedicated English TV channels in India and many international English channels whose viewer ship is less than 2% among Telugu people or all Indians. Few international TV channels such as Discovery, National Geography, etc. in Telugu are also available in Andhra Pradesh. Most of the correspondence in state & central government offices and private establishments is in English even though the majority employees are Telugu people. Though software tools in Telugu are available in the market, English versions are used invariably in state government offices and educational institutions. All the proceedings in the courts and judgments are in English in Andhra Pradesh. UNESCO has warned that Telugu language would become dead language in next 15 years if the present policy of discouragement is continued. The encouragement to English over Telugu has multiplied due to vested interests of private educational institutes and the pseudo cosmopolitan intellectuals swaying complete hold on the machinery of centre and state governments.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= 2 crore Indian children study in English-medium schools )〕 Due to the multi linguistic nature of India, English protagonists who have risen to prominence during the British rule are able to continue the British education policy even after 65 years of gaining independence in the year 1947.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= UPSC notification put on hold )〕 A general impression is imbibed in the Indian society for last 30 years that learning English is panacea for the bright future of the people irrespective of good knowledge base in science, maths, arts, history, etc. subjects.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Myths about English )〕 Many educated Telugu people started visiting and residing in all parts of the world in search of knowledge based jobs. They are able to give their first hand credible observations and feed back to all sections of Telugu people that how, many countries are able to prosper faster than India by imparting education in their native languages without depending on English language.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Plan to develop Telugu language )〕 All over India native language renaissance is picking up gradually demanding for their usage in place of English. An expenditure less than one day’s gross domestic product (GDP) of Andhra Pradesh state is adequate to achieve Telugu language prominence in all walks of life provided the state government is dedicated to the development of Telugu language.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Action plan for full development of Telugu language )〕 No country in this world has attained developed status without imparting education in the native language. The evolution of English as the present day undisputed only one international language from an underdeveloped and un-preferred language in UK itself during the medial period, is an exemplary case of English people’s love, dedication and the untiring efforts towards their language development.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= ఆంగ్ల భాష పురోగతిననుకరిద్దాం (Let us emulate English language progress) )〕 It is also interesting to note that how, English (UK) people encourage their minority language Welsh though their native language English has attained status of international language. The present status of Welsh language in UK which is mother tongue of nearly 0.7 million people only, is far better than the present status of Telugu which is mother tongue of 85 million people in India. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Telugu language policy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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