The Komatis everywhere speak Telugu, and are devoted to their mother-tongue. There is a common proverb among them, "Telugu theta, Aravam adhvanam," meaning that Telugu is easy (has an easy flow), and Tamil is wretched. "Of all Dravidian languages," Mr. Henry Morris writes, "Telugu is the sweetest and most musical. It is exceedingly mellifluous, and sounds harmonious even in the mouth of the most vulgar and illiterate. It has justly been called the Italian of the East." Komatis are clever at learning languages other than their own. In the Tamil and Canarese districts, they are conversant with the languages thereof, and in Bombay they speak Marathi. In the Ganjam and Vizagapatam Agencies, they speak the Kondh and Savara languages very fluently. As a commercial caste, the Komatis have a secret trade language of their own, which is substantially the same all over the country. It will be seen from the tables given how complete their numerical tables are, ranging, as they do, from one pie to a thousand rupees. It will be observed that the rupee is represented by the word thelupu, which means white. Some Tamil trading castes in like manner call the rupee velle (white):-- 1. Pie table. Pies. Nakili batu 1 Ke batu 2 Kevu nakili batu 3 Rayam batu 4 Rayam nakili batu 5 2. Anna table. Annas. Thapi kamanalu 1/4 Nakili ana 1/2 Kev ana 1 Kevan nakili ana 1 1/2 Rayam analu 2 Uddulam analu 3 Uddulam nakili analu 3 1/2 Kungidu analu 4 Sulalu analu 12 The word sulalu is connected with trisulam, the trident emblem of Siva, and sometimes used to denote three annas. 3. Rupee table.