How to pronounce Bhattiprolu?

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Pronunciation of Bhattiprolu in India, Andhra Pradesh

Bhattiprolu is pronounced as

Bhaa (as in car) ti (as in tea) pro-lu

in sounds like the 'in' in 'pin'


Bhattiprolu is pronounced as: Phonetic Spelling:[ Bhaa (as in car) ti (as in tea) pro-lu ]

in in
pin pin

Type of Name:

Name of town in India -- Buddhist pilgrimage point

Language:

Indian

Gender:

Male, Female

Additional Information:

From Wiki: The original name of Bhattiprolu was Pratipalapura, a flourishing Buddhist town in the ancient Sala kingdom that predated Andhra Satavahanas. From available inscriptional evidence, King Kuberaka was ruling over Bhattiprolu around 230 BC. Bhattiprolu is well known for its Buddha stupa (Vikramarka kota dibba) built about 3rd-2nd century BC. During excavations at Bhattiprolu there has been found linguistic evidence of a Telugu language that belongs to 3rd Century BC,[dubious – discuss] and the progenitor[contradictory] of Brahmi script, well known as Bhattiprolu Script to historians[1] .[2][verification needed][3][unreliable source?] Merchants took the script to Southeast Asia where it parented the scripts of Mon, Burmese, Thai, Khmer, Javanese and Balinese languages. Their similarities to Telugu script can be discerned even today.
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Pronunciation of Bhattiprolu in India, Andhra Pradesh

Bhatti rhymes with "Marty"
prolu rhymes with "pro-lu"


Type of Name:

Name of town in India -- Buddhist pilgrimage point

Language:

Indian

Gender:

Male, Female

Additional Information:

From Wiki: The original name of Bhattiprolu was Pratipalapura, a flourishing Buddhist town in the ancient Sala kingdom that predated Andhra Satavahanas. From available inscriptional evidence, King Kuberaka was ruling over Bhattiprolu around 230 BC. Bhattiprolu is well known for its Buddha stupa (Vikramarka kota dibba) built about 3rd-2nd century BC. During excavations at Bhattiprolu there has been found linguistic evidence of a Telugu language that belongs to 3rd Century BC,[dubious – discuss] and the progenitor[contradictory] of Brahmi script, well known as Bhattiprolu Script to historians[1] .[2][verification needed][3][unreliable source?] Merchants took the script to Southeast Asia where it parented the scripts of Mon, Burmese, Thai, Khmer, Javanese and Balinese languages. Their similarities to Telugu script can be discerned even today.
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