Countries
India
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
-
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5153
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1610
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3543
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Kannada Script
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskara
Molo
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
Unjani
Good Night
yedde rathre
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
yedde kaande
Molo
Please
Daya maltadu
Ndicela
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Barpe
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
South Africa
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Jain
Thembu
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Girijan
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
South Africa
How Many People Speak
2.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
49
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tulu
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
-
xhosa
German Name
Tulu
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
14
16th Century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Tulu
isiXhosa
Language Position
2321
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
xho
ISO 639 2/B
tul
xho
ISO 639 3
tcy
xho
ISO 639 6
tcy
xho
Glottocode
tulu1258
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
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