Countries
India
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5121
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
165
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3519
9
60
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskara
Bwakeye
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
Urakoze
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
Urakomeye?
Good Night
yedde rathre
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
yedde kaande
Mwaramutse
Please
Daya maltadu
Ndagusavye
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
Ndasubiza
Bye
Barpe
N’agasaga
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Jain
Ha
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Girijan
Shubi
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
2.00153,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million8.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tulu
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
-
rundi
German Name
Tulu
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
14
1500
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Tulu
Kirundi
Language Position
2386
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
run
ISO 639 2/B
tul
run
ISO 639 3
tcy
run
ISO 639 6
tcy
run
Glottocode
tulu1258
rund1242
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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