Countries
India
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
India
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
-
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Armenian
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5124
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
167
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3517
9
60
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskara
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
yedde rathre
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
yedde kaande
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
Daya maltadu
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
Barpe
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Greece
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Jain
Griko
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Italy
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Girijan
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
2.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
425
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tulu
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
-
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Tulu
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
14
1500 BC
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Tulu
Modern Greek
Language Position
2374
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
ell
ISO 639 2/B
tul
gre
ISO 639 3
tcy
ell
ISO 639 6
tcy
ells
Glottocode
tulu1258
gree1276
Linguasphere
No data available
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic