Countries
India
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
-
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5133
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
165
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3528
9
60
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskara
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
yedde rathre
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
yedde kaande
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
Daya maltadu
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
Barpe
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Jain
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Kartli
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Girijan
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
2.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
420
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.70 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.70 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Tulu
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
-
géorgien
German Name
Tulu
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Georgians
Origin
14
5th Century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
-
Southern
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Tulu
Modern Georgian
Language Position
23120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
kat
ISO 639 2/B
tul
geo
ISO 639 3
tcy
kat
ISO 639 6
tcy
kat
Glottocode
tulu1258
nucl1302
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic