Countries
India
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
-
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Dutch Language
Derived From
-
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5132
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1615
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3517
9
60
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskara
hallo
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
Dankie
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
yedde rathre
goeie nag
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
Goeie middag
Good Morning
yedde kaande
goeie more
Please
Daya maltadu
asseblief
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
jammer
Bye
Barpe
Totsiens
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
-
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Jain
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
-
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Girijan
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Namibia
How Many People Speak
2.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tulu
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Cape Dutch
French Name
-
afrikaans
German Name
Tulu
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Afrikaners
Origin
14
17th Century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Tulu
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
2323
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
afr
ISO 639 2/B
tul
afr
ISO 639 3
tcy
afr
ISO 639 6
tcy
afrs
Glottocode
tulu1258
afri1274
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic