Countries
India
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
India
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
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.
  
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
Similar To
Kannada Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Tulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kannada Script
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskara
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
yedde rathre
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
yedde kaande
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Daya maltadu
  
haluta
  
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Barpe
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
Jain
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Girijan
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.70 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
Tulu
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
  
Suomi
  
French Name
Not Available
  
finnois
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Tuluva
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
14
  
1543
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Tulu
  
standard Finnish
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
tcy
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tulu1258
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Tulu and Finnish 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 Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tulu and Finnish language. Tulu word for "Hello" is Namaskara or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Tulu Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tulu vs Finnish Difficulty
The Tulu vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tulu Alphabets and Finnish 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 Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tulu and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tulu is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.