Countries
India
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
India
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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 Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Kannada Language
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kannada Script
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskara
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
yedde rathre
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
yedde kaande
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
Daya maltadu
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
Barpe
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Jain
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Girijan
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million
  
99+
380.00 million
  
5
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.70 million
  
99+
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
Tulu
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
Not Available
  
hindi
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Tuluva
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
14
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Tulu
  
Standard Hindi
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
tcy
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
hins
  
Glottocode
tulu1258
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Tulu and Hindi 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 Hindi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tulu and Hindi language. Tulu word for "Hello" is Namaskara or Hindi word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda). Find more of such common Tulu Greetings and Hindi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tulu vs Hindi Difficulty
The Tulu vs Hindi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tulu Alphabets and Hindi 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 Hindi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tulu and Hindi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tulu is 44 weeks while to learn Hindi time required is 44 weeks.