Countries
India
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
India
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International 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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Kannada Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kannada Script
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskara
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
yedde rathre
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
yedde kaande
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Daya maltadu
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
  
آسف
  
Bye
Barpe
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Jain
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Girijan
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.70 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
Tulu
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
Not Available
  
arabe
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Tuluva
  
Arabs
  
Origin
14
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Tulu
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
tcy
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tulu1258
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Tulu and Arabic 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 Arabic greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tulu and Arabic language. Tulu word for "Hello" is Namaskara or Arabic word for "Thank You" is شكرا. Find more of such common Tulu Greetings and Arabic Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tulu vs Arabic Difficulty
The Tulu vs Arabic difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tulu Alphabets and Arabic 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 Arabic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tulu and Arabic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tulu is 44 weeks while to learn Arabic time required is 88 weeks.