Countries
India
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
India
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Kannada Language
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kannada Script
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Namaskara
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
yedde rathre
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
yedde kaande
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Daya maltadu
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Barpe
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Jain
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Girijan
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.70 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Tulu
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
Not Available
  
népalais
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Tuluva
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
14
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Tulu
  
Nepali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
tcy
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tulu1258
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Tulu and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tulu and Nepali language. Tulu word for "Hello" is Namaskara or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Tulu Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tulu vs Nepali Difficulty
The Tulu vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tulu Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tulu and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tulu is 44 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.