Countries
India
  
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
National Language
India
  
France
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
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.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Kannada Language
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Tulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kannada Script
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskara
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
yedde rathre
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
yedde kaande
  
Bonjour
  
Please
Daya maltadu
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
  
désolé
  
Bye
Barpe
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Jain
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Africa
  
Dialect 3
Girijan
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million
  
99+
163.00 million
  
11
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.70 million
  
99+
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
Tulu
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
  
Français
  
French Name
Not Available
  
français
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Tuluva
  
Not Available
  
Origin
14
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Tulu
  
Standard French
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
tcy
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
tulu1258
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic