Countries
India
  
South Africa
  
National Language
India
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Namibia, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
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.
  
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
  
Similar To
Kannada Language
  
Dutch Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Dutch Language
  
Alphabets in
Tulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kannada Script
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskara
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
  
Dankie
  
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
  
Hoe gaan dit
  
Good Night
yedde rathre
  
goeie nag
  
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
  
Goeienaand
  
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
  
Goeie middag
  
Good Morning
yedde kaande
  
goeie more
  
Please
Daya maltadu
  
asseblief
  
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
  
jammer
  
Bye
Barpe
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
  
Ek het jou lief
  
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
  
Verskoon my
  
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
  
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Jain
  
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Girijan
  
Baster Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Namibia
  
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million
  
99+
19.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.70 million
  
99+
7.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
10.30 million
  
22
Native Name
Tulu
  
Afrikaans
  
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
  
Cape Dutch
  
French Name
Not Available
  
afrikaans
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Afrikaans
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
Ethnicity
Tuluva
  
Afrikaners
  
Origin
14
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Standard Forms
Tulu
  
Standard Afrikaans
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
af
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
afr
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
afr
  
ISO 639 3
tcy
  
afr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
afrs
  
Glottocode
tulu1258
  
afri1274
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ACB-ba
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic
  
Tulu and Afrikaans 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 Tulu and Afrikaans greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tulu and Afrikaans language. Tulu word for "Hello" is Namaskara or Afrikaans word for "Thank You" is Dankie. Find more of such common Tulu Greetings and Afrikaans Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tulu vs Afrikaans Difficulty
The Tulu vs Afrikaans difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tulu Alphabets and Afrikaans 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 Tulu and Afrikaans are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tulu and Afrikaans, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tulu is 44 weeks while to learn Afrikaans time required is 24 weeks.