Countries
India
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Bengali Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5147
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
168
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3531
9
60
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks18 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskara
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
yedde rathre
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
yedde kaande
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
Daya maltadu
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
Barpe
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Jain
Kharwa
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Girijan
Surati
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
-
How Many People Speak
2.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
48
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.70 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.74 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.70 million50.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million55.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Tulu
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
-
goudjrati
German Name
Tulu
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Gujaratis
Origin
14
15
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Tulu
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
2323
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Signed Gujarati
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
guj
ISO 639 2/B
tul
guj
ISO 639 3
tcy
guj
ISO 639 6
tcy
guj
Glottocode
tulu1258
guja1252
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-