Countries
India
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Myanmar
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Mon
Regulated By
-
Myanmar Language Commission
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 naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Thai Language
Derived From
-
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5133
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3533
9
60
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Tangut
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
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskara
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
yedde rathre
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
yedde kaande
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
Daya maltadu
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
Barpe
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Jain
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Girijan
Intha
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Burma
How Many People Speak
2.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
45
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million43.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tulu
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
-
birman
German Name
Tulu
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Bamar people
Origin
14
1113 AD
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Tulu
Modern Burmese
Language Position
2343
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
mya
ISO 639 2/B
tul
bur
ISO 639 3
tcy
mya
ISO 639 6
tcy
mya
Glottocode
tulu1258
sout3159
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating