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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Kannada Language
Marathi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5152
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1616
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3536
9
60
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskara
Namaskar
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
kaso assa?
Good Night
yedde rathre
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
yedde kaande
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
Daya maltadu
Chike
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
Maf kor
Bye
Barpe
Adeus
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Antruz
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Goa
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Jain
Not present
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
-
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Girijan
Not present
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
-
How Many People Speak
2.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
41
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.70 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tulu
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
-
konkani
German Name
Tulu
Konkani
Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Tuluva
Konkanis
Origin
14
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Tulu
Kokani
Language Position
2323
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tulu
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tcy
kok
ISO 639 2/B
tul
kok
ISO 639 3
tcy
kok
ISO 639 6
tcy
kok
Glottocode
tulu1258
goan1235
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-