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Countries

Countries
India

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

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
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Alphabets
51 30

Phonology

How Many Vowels
16 13

How Many Consonants
35 25

Scripts
Kannada Script

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
5 4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 55

Dialect 2
Jain

Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu

How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00 56

Dialect 3
Girijan

Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu

How Many People Speak
2.00 87

Total No. Of Dialects
4 4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.70 million 83

Speaking Population
0.01 % 62

Native Speakers
1.70 million 78

Second Language Speakers
2.00 million 57

Native Name
Tulu

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

French Name
-

German Name
Tulu

Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]

Ethnicity
Tuluva

History

Origin
14

Language Family
Dravidian Family

Subgroup
-

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms
Tulu

Language Position
23 21

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
-

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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.

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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.

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