Countries
India
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
-
Yoruba Academy
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.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5129
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3517
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Kannada Script
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskara
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
e dupe
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
yedde rathre
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
e kaasan
Good Morning
yedde kaande
e kaaro
Please
Daya maltadu
Jowo
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
binu
Bye
Barpe
bye
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Jain
Ede
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Girijan
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
2.0010,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
420
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tulu
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
-
yoruba
German Name
Tulu
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Yoruba people
Origin
14
4 BC
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Western Sudanic
Branch
-
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Tulu
Yorùbá
Language Position
2349
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
yor
ISO 639 2/B
tul
yor
ISO 639 3
tcy
yor
ISO 639 6
tcy
yor
Glottocode
tulu1258
yoru1245
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating