Countries
India
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
China, Guangdong
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
Hawaii
Regulated By
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5128
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
168
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3520
9
60
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
510
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskara
您好
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
谢谢
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
你好吗？
Good Night
yedde rathre
晚安
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
晚上好
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
下午好
Good Morning
yedde kaande
早上好
Please
Daya maltadu
请
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
遗憾
Bye
Barpe
再见
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
我爱你
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
原谅我
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Jain
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Girijan
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
2.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tulu
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
-
cantonais
German Name
Tulu
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Han Chinese
Origin
14
17th century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Tulu
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
231
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
yue
ISO 639 2/B
tul
yue
ISO 639 3
tcy
No data available
ISO 639 6
tcy
yue
Glottocode
tulu1258
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-