National Language
India
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
NA
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
- 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
Bengali Language
Kannada Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Devanagari
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Language Levels
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Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Namaskara
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
yedde rathre
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
yedde kaande
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Daya maltadu
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Yenna thapu aandu
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Tamil Nadu
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Tamil Nadu
Dialect 3
Not Available
Girijan
Where They Speak
Not Available
Tamil Nadu
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Tulu
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
goudjrati
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German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
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Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
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Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Tuluva
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Tulu
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
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Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
gu
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
guj
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
guj
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
guja1252
tulu1258
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
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Gujarati and Tulu Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Gujarati and Tulu greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Gujarati and Tulu language. Gujarati word for "Hello" is નમસ્તે (namaste) or Tulu word for "Thank You" is Mast Upakara.. Find more of such common Gujarati Greetings and Tulu Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Gujarati vs Tulu Difficulty
The Gujarati vs Tulu difficulty level basically depends on the number of Gujarati Alphabets and Tulu Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Gujarati and Tulu are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Gujarati and Tulu, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Gujarati is 18 weeks while to learn Tulu time required is 44 weeks.