Countries
India
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
India
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
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.
  
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
Similar To
Kannada Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Tulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kannada Script
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskara
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
yedde rathre
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
yedde kaande
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
Daya maltadu
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
Barpe
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Jain
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Girijan
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.70 million
  
99+
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
Tulu
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
  
Not Available
  
French Name
Not Available
  
chinois
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Tuluva
  
Han
  
Origin
14
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Tulu
  
Standard Chinese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
tcy
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tulu1258
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Tulu and Chinese Speaking population
Tulu and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tulu and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Tulu and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tulu language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 %. 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 Tulu and Chinese on Tulu vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tulu and Chinese Language Codes
Tulu and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tulu and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.