Countries
India
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5154
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1618
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3536
9
60
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskara
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
yedde rathre
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
yedde kaande
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Daya maltadu
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Barpe
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Vedda
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Jain
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
-
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Girijan
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
-
How Many People Speak
2.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
41
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.70 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Tulu
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
-
singhalais
German Name
Tulu
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Sinhalese people
Origin
14
3
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Tulu
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2370
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
sin
ISO 639 2/B
tul
sin
ISO 639 3
tcy
sin
ISO 639 6
tcy
sin
Glottocode
tulu1258
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional