Countries
India
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5133
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
167
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3531
9
60
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskara
Selam
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
Dehina newot?
Good Night
yedde rathre
Dehna dur
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
yedde kaande
i'ndemin adäru
Please
Daya maltadu
i'bakwon
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
aznallehu
Bye
Barpe
tschao
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Gondar
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Gondar
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Jain
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Girijan
Showa
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
2.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
45
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million18.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Tulu
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
-
amharique
German Name
Tulu
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Amharas
Origin
14
13th century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Tulu
Amharic
Language Position
2355
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
amh
ISO 639 2/B
tul
amh
ISO 639 3
tcy
amh
ISO 639 6
tcy
amh
Glottocode
tulu1258
amha1245
Linguasphere
No data available
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional