Countries
India
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
India
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
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.
  
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
  
Similar To
Kannada Language
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Tulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kannada Script
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskara
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
yedde rathre
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
yedde kaande
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Daya maltadu
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Barpe
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Jain
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Girijan
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.70 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Tulu
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
Not Available
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Tuluva
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
14
  
3
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Tulu
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
tcy
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tulu1258
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Tulu and Sinhalese Speaking population
Tulu and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tulu and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Tulu and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tulu language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. 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 Sinhalese on Tulu vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tulu and Sinhalese Language Codes
Tulu and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tulu and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.