Countries
India
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
India
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
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Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5126
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1624
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3523
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
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskara
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
yedde rathre
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
yedde kaande
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Daya maltadu
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Barpe
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Jain
Wu
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Girijan
Yue
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
2.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
410
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %16.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.70 million873.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Tulu
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
-
chinois
German Name
Tulu
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Han
Origin
14
1250 BC
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Tulu
Standard Chinese
Language Position
231
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
zho
ISO 639 2/B
tul
chi
ISO 639 3
tcy
zho
ISO 639 6
tcy
zho
Glottocode
tulu1258
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating