Countries
India, Pakistan
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
India
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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Interesting Facts
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
- 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.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Kannada Language
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5251
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1016
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4035
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
Namaskara
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
yedde rathre
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
yedde kaande
Please
براہ مہربانی
Daya maltadu
Sorry
معاف کرنا
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
الوداع
Barpe
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
India
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Jain
Where They Speak
India
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Girijan
Where They Speak
South Asia
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.002.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
104.00 million1.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
61.00 million1.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
43.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
اُردُو
Tulu
Alternative Names
Bihari
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
ourdou
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German Name
Urdu
Tulu
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Tuluva
Origin
12th Century CE
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Tulu
Language Position
2023
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
urd
tul
ISO 639 3
urd
tcy
ISO 639 6
urd
tcy
Glottocode
urdu1245
tulu1258
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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