Countries
India
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
-
National Council for the Maltese Language
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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
-
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5130
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
166
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3524
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Kannada Script
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskara
Ħello
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
Grazzi
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
Kif int?
Good Night
yedde rathre
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
yedde kaande
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
Daya maltadu
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
Skużani!
Bye
Barpe
Ċaw
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Qormi
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Malta
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Jain
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Malta
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Girijan
Not Present
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
-
How Many People Speak
2.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
42
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tulu
Malti
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Malti
French Name
-
maltais
German Name
Tulu
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Maltese
Origin
14
c. 1470
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Tulu
Maltese
Language Position
2325
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
tul
mlt
ISO 639 3
tcy
mlt
ISO 639 6
tcy
mlt
Glottocode
tulu1258
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic