Countries
India
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
Nigeria
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
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
-
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5136
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
168
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3528
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Kannada Script
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskara
kedụ
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
dalụ
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
yedde rathre
ka chi fo
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
yedde kaande
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
Daya maltadu
Biko
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
Ndo
Bye
Barpe
Kachifo
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Enuani
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Jain
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Girijan
Not present
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
-
How Many People Speak
2.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
420
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tulu
igbo
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Ibo
French Name
-
igbo
German Name
Tulu
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Igbo people
Origin
14
30th Century BC
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Tulu
Standard Igbo
Language Position
2357
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
tul
ibo
ISO 639 3
tcy
ibo
ISO 639 6
tcy
ibo
Glottocode
tulu1258
nucl1417
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative