Countries
India
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
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.
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Bengali and Assamese
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5142
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1611
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3531
9
60
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskara
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
Good Night
yedde rathre
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
Good Morning
yedde kaande
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
Please
Daya maltadu
ଦୟାକରି
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
Bye
Barpe
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Baleswari
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
India
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0033,800,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Jain
Ganjami
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
India
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0033,800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Girijan
Kosli
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
India
How Many People Speak
2.00520,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
48
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.70 million33.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.50 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.70 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Tulu
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
French Name
-
oriya
German Name
Tulu
Oriya-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[ˈoɽia]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Odias
Origin
14
3 BC
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Tulu
Standard Odia
Language Position
2332
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
or
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
ori
ISO 639 2/B
tul
ori
ISO 639 3
tcy
ori
ISO 639 6
tcy
ori
Glottocode
tulu1258
macr1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-