Countries
India
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
-
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5129
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
168
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3513
9
60
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskara
Moi
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
Kiitos
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
yedde rathre
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
yedde kaande
Hyvää huomenta
Please
Daya maltadu
haluta
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
Anteeksi
Bye
Barpe
Heippa
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Finland
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Jain
Rauma
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Girijan
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
2.0060,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
421
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million5.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tulu
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Suomi
French Name
-
finnois
German Name
Tulu
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
ethnic Finns
Origin
14
1543
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
-
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Tulu
standard Finnish
Language Position
2322
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
fin
ISO 639 2/B
tul
fin
ISO 639 3
tcy
fin
ISO 639 6
tcy
fin
Glottocode
tulu1258
finn1318
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic