Countries
India
  
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
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Govenment of Goa
  
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.
  
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
  
Similar To
Kannada Language
  
Marathi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Tulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kannada Script
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskara
  
Namaskar
  
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
  
Dev Borem Korum
  
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
  
kaso assa?
  
Good Night
yedde rathre
  
Rati Boren Zavonn
  
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
  
Sanj Borem Zavonn
  
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
yedde kaande
  
Dis Borem Zavonn
  
Please
Daya maltadu
  
Chike
  
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
  
Maf kor
  
Bye
Barpe
  
Adeus
  
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
  
hav tujo mog korta.
  
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
  
upkar korxi
  
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
  
Antruz
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Goa
  
Dialect 2
Jain
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Girijan
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million
  
99+
7.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.70 million
  
99+
7.40 million
  
99+
Native Name
Tulu
  
Kōṅkaṇī
  
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
  
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
  
French Name
Not Available
  
konkani
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Konkani
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
kõkɳi
  
Ethnicity
Tuluva
  
Konkanis
  
Origin
14
  
1209 A.D.
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Tulu
  
Kokani
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
kok
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
kok
  
ISO 639 3
tcy
  
kok
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tulu1258
  
goan1235
  
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
  
Not Available
  
Tulu and Konkani 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 Konkani greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tulu and Konkani language. Tulu word for "Hello" is Namaskara or Konkani word for "Thank You" is Dev Borem Korum. Find more of such common Tulu Greetings and Konkani Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tulu vs Konkani Difficulty
The Tulu vs Konkani difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tulu Alphabets and Konkani 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 Konkani are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tulu and Konkani, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tulu is 44 weeks while to learn Konkani time required is 4 weeks.