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Tulu
Tulu

Nepali
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Countries

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

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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

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Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5148
18 247
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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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Greetings

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)

Dialects

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
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Total No. Of Dialects

412
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.70 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

1.70 million25.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million5.00 million
0.01 400
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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

History

Origin

14
19 BC

Language Family

Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

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Indo-Iranian

Branch

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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

Code

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

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Agglutinative

Tulu and Nepali Alphabets

Tulu and Nepali Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Tulu and Nepali. In Tulu Alphabets there are 51 letters while in Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters. To learn Tulu and Nepali languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Tulu and Nepali languages. The Tulu phonology consist Tulu vowels and Tulu consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Tulu greetings vs Nepali greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Tulu and Nepali are Most Spoken Languages.

All Tulu and Nepali Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tulu and Nepali dialects. Various dialects of Tulu and Nepali language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tulu are spoken in different Tulu Speaking Countries whereas Nepali Dialects are spoken in different Nepali speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tulu vs Nepali Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tulu dialects include: Brahmin tulu, Jain. Nepali dialects include: Doteli , Bajhangi. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Tulu and Nepali Speaking population

Tulu and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tulu and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Tulu and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tulu language is 0.01 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tulu and Nepali on Tulu vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tulu and Nepali Language Codes

Tulu and Nepali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tulu and Nepali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.