Countries
India
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Palau
Regulated By
-
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5199
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
165
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3514
9
60
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Kana
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
55
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskara
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
yedde rathre
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
yedde kaande
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Daya maltadu
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Barpe
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Jain
Hakata
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Girijan
Kansai
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
kansai
How Many People Speak
2.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
431
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.70 million128.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Tulu
日本語
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Nihongo
French Name
-
japonais
German Name
Tulu
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
14
1185
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Tulu
Japanese
Language Position
238
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
tul
jpn
ISO 639 3
tcy
jpn
ISO 639 6
tcy
jpn
Glottocode
tulu1258
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data available
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative, Synthetic