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
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Kannada Script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
  
Jain
  
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
  
Tamil Nadu
  
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
  
Girijan
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Tamil Nadu
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
1.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
1.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
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
  
Origin
19 BC
  
14
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Dravidian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
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
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nep
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
nep
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
npi
  
tcy
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nepa1254
  
tulu1258
  
Linguasphere
12
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available
  
Nepali and Tulu Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Nepali and Tulu greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Nepali and Tulu language. Nepali word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (namaste) or Tulu word for "Thank You" is Mast Upakara.. Find more of such common Nepali Greetings and Tulu Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Nepali vs Tulu Difficulty
The Nepali vs Tulu difficulty level basically depends on the number of Nepali Alphabets and Tulu Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Nepali and Tulu are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Nepali and Tulu, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Nepali is 44 weeks while to learn Tulu time required is 44 weeks.