About Tulu Language | Tulu | Alphabets in Tulu

Countries

India

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

India

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Interesting Facts

Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.

Similar To

Kannada Language

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 30 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 13 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 25 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Kannada Script

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 4 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Namaskara

Thank You

Mast Upakara.

How Are You?

Yencha Ullar?

Good Night

yedde rathre

Good Evening

yedde baiyya

Good Afternoon

yedde madhyana

Good Morning

yedde kaande

Please

Daya maltadu

Sorry

Yenna thapu aandu

Bye

Barpe

I Love You

Yank ninade preeti Malpuye

Excuse Me

Kshamisi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Brahmin tulu

Where They Speak

Tamil Nadu

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.00

Rank: 55 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Jain

Where They Speak

Tamil Nadu

How Many People Speak

1,900,000.00

Rank: 56 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Girijan

Where They Speak

Tamil Nadu

How Many People Speak

2.00

Rank: 87 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 4 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.70 million

Rank: 83 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.01 %

Rank: 62 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

1.70 million

Rank: 78 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million

Rank: 57 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Tulu

Alternative Names

Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa

French Name

German Name

Tulu

Pronunciation

[ˈtulu]

Ethnicity

Tuluva

History

Origin

Language Family

Dravidian Family

Subgroup

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Tulu

Language Position

Rank: 21 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Tulu

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

tcy

ISO 639 2/B

tul

ISO 639 3

tcy

ISO 639 6

tcy

Glottocode

tulu1258

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Language Morphological Typology

Know Alphabets in Tulu

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Tulu Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Tulu Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Tulu. Tulu phonology gives Tulu vowels and Tulu consonants. There are 16 vowels and 35 consonants in Tulu language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Tulu is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Tulu language is given in detail in this section.

All Tulu countries

Want to explore all Tulu countries? About Tulu language serves you with all Tulu Speaking Countries. Countries that use Tulu as official language are called as Tulu countries.

Countries that use Tulu as their National Language are: India.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Tulu as second language are: Tulu is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Tulu greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Tulu Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Tulu language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Tulu language.Learn Tulu greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Namaskara
Thank you: Mast Upakara.
Good Morning: yedde kaande
Good Evening: yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon: yedde madhyana

All Tulu Language Codes

Get to know all Tulu language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Tulu Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.