Countries
India, Nepal
India
National Language
Nepal
India
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
- 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
Hindi
Kannada Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Devanagari
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
Namaskara
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
yedde rathre
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
yedde kaande
Please
कृपया
Daya maltadu
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Barpe
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Doteli
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
Nepal
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Tamil Nadu
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Girijan
Where They Speak
Nepal
Tamil Nadu
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Tulu
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
népalais
Not Available
German Name
Nepali
Not Available
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Tuluva
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
Tulu
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Not Available
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
nep
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
nep
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nepa1254
tulu1258
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available
All Nepali and Tulu Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Nepali and Tulu dialects. Various dialects of Nepali and Tulu language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Nepali are spoken in different Nepali Speaking Countries whereas Tulu Dialects are spoken in different Tulu speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Nepali vs Tulu Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Nepali dialects include: Doteli, Bajhangi. Tulu dialects include: Brahmin tulu , Jain. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Nepali and Tulu Speaking population
Nepali and Tulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Tulu languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Tulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tulu language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Nepali and Tulu on Nepali vs Tulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Nepali and Tulu Language Codes
Nepali and Tulu language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Nepali and Tulu Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.