Countries
Estonia, European Union
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
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Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- 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
Finnish
Kannada Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2751
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
916
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1835
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
Namaskara
Thank You
aitäh
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
Head ööd
yedde rathre
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
yedde kaande
Please
Palun
Daya maltadu
Sorry
Vabandust
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
Head aega
Barpe
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Jain
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Girijan
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.002.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
84
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.10 million1.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.95 million1.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
Tulu
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
estonien
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German Name
Estnisch
Tulu
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Tuluva
Origin
13th century
14
Language Family
Uralic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
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Branch
Finnic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Estonian
Tulu
Language Position
2223
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Signed Tulu
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
est
tul
ISO 639 3
est
tcy
ISO 639 6
est
tcy
Glottocode
esto1258
tulu1258
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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