Countries
India
  
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
National Language
India
  
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
South Africa
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
Similar To
Kannada Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kannada Script
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskara
  
Hello
  
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
  
Thank you
  
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
  
How are you?
  
Good Night
yedde rathre
  
Good Night
  
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
  
Good Evening
  
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
  
Good Afternoon
  
Good Morning
yedde kaande
  
Good Morning
  
Please
Daya maltadu
  
Please
  
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
  
Sorry
  
Bye
Barpe
  
Bye
  
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
  
I love you
  
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
  
Excuse Me
  
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
  
American English
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
225,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 2
Jain
  
Hiberno-English
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
15
Dialect 3
Girijan
  
Welsh English
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,500,000.00
  
14
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million
  
99+
1,200.00 million
  
1
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.70 million
  
99+
400.00 million
  
3
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
400.00 million
  
1
Native Name
Tulu
  
English
  
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
  
Not Available
  
French Name
Not Available
  
anglais
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Englisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Ethnicity
Tuluva
  
Not Available
  
Origin
14
  
5th Century AD
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Standard Forms
Tulu
  
Standard English
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed English
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
en
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
eng
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
eng
  
ISO 639 3
tcy
  
eng
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
engs
  
Glottocode
tulu1258
  
stan1293
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ABA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic