Countries
India
India, No official status
Total No. Of Countries
10
0
46
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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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
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.
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Maithili and Magahi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5143
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1611
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3534
9
60
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskara
प्रणाम (prannam)
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
Good Night
yedde rathre
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Morning
yedde kaande
राम राम (raam raam)
Please
Daya maltadu
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Bye
Barpe
प्रणाम (prannam)
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Caribbean Hindustani
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0016,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Jain
Fiji Hindi
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00380,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Girijan
Tharu Bhojpuri
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
India
How Many People Speak
2.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
413
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million40.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.43 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tulu
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
French Name
-
bhojpuri
German Name
Tulu
Bhojpuri
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Bhojpuri speakers
Origin
14
19th Century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Tulu
Bhojpuri
Language Position
2337
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Bhojpuri Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
bho
ISO 639 2/B
tul
bho
ISO 639 3
tcy
bho
ISO 639 6
tcy
bho
Glottocode
tulu1258
bhoj1246
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-