Countries
India
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
-
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan 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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5135
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
165
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3530
9
60
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskara
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
yedde rathre
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
yedde kaande
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Daya maltadu
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Barpe
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Jain
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Girijan
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
China
How Many People Speak
2.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.70 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.70 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Tulu
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
-
tibétain
German Name
Tulu
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
tibetan people
Origin
14
c. 650
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Tulu
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2329
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
bod
ISO 639 2/B
tul
tib
ISO 639 3
tcy
bod
ISO 639 6
tcy
bod
Glottocode
tulu1258
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-