Countries
India
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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
Munda Language
Kannada Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3051
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
616
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2135
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Henda ho
Namaskara
Thank You
Adi Johar
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
Boge Ninda
yedde rathre
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
yedde kaande
Please
দয়া করে
Daya maltadu
Sorry
দুঃখিত
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
Hariau
Barpe
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Mahali
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
India
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Jain
Where They Speak
-
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Girijan
Where They Speak
-
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.002.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
14
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million1.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million1.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Tulu
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
santal
-
German Name
Santali
Tulu
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Tuluva
Origin
20th century
14
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Santali
Tulu
Language Position
4123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
sat
tul
ISO 639 3
sat
tcy
ISO 639 6
sat
tcy
Glottocode
sant1410
tulu1258
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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