Countries
India
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
India
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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.
  
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Kannada Language
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
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Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kannada Script
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskara
  
Hai
  
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
yedde rathre
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
yedde kaande
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
Daya maltadu
  
sila
  
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
  
maaf
  
Bye
Barpe
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Jain
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Girijan
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million
  
99+
175.00 million
  
10
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.70 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Tulu
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
  
Not Available
  
French Name
Not Available
  
malais
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Tuluva
  
Not Available
  
Origin
14
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Tulu
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
tcy
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tulu1258
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Tulu and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tulu and Malaysian language. Tulu word for "Hello" is Namaskara or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Tulu Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tulu vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Tulu vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tulu Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tulu and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tulu is 44 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.