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Now Yerukalas have a script of their own.
Yerukala language will no longer be called a Dialect. From today on it is a language. Yerukala language official recognition process is under way.
Gunna Ramakoteswara Rao, an unemployed Arts graduate residing in Bahujan Nagar of KADAPA, designed 36 alphabets and grammar in Yerukala script. Moving in proximity with Yerukalas, a nomadic tribe, he learnt to speak their language but was astounded to know that they had no script to write. He took up the task and prepared the script for the dialect. Taking Telugu, Hindi and English alphabets as the base, I designed 36 alphabets in Yerukala script and grammar while taking care that they did not appear to be a replica of existing ones in any of the south and north Indian languages, Ramakoteswara Rao said.
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