Countries
India
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
Nepal
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
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5148
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1612
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3536
9
60
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Devanagari
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
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
yedde rathre
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
Good afternoon
Good Morning
yedde kaande
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Daya maltadu
कृपया
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Barpe
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Doteli
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Jain
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Girijan
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Nepal
How Many People Speak
2.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
412
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tulu
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
-
népalais
German Name
Tulu
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
14
19 BC
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Tulu
Nepali
Language Position
2359
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
nep
ISO 639 2/B
tul
nep
ISO 639 3
tcy
npi
ISO 639 6
tcy
nep
Glottocode
tulu1258
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative