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Tulu
ತುಳು
തുളു
Tulu Baase written in Tulu script
Native toIndia
RegionTulu Nadu[a][1][2][3]
EthnicityTuluvas
Native speakers
over 3 million[4] (2011 census)
Dravidian
Tulu script
Kannada script Malayalam script Tigalari script
Official status
Recognised minority
language in
Regulated byKarnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy
Kerala Tulu Academy
Language codes
ISO 639-3tcy
Glottologtulu1258
Distribution of native Tulu speakers in India
Tulu is written in a non-Latin script (Kannada or Tulu). Tulu text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO 15919 standard.
A Tulu speaker, recorded in India.

Tulu (Tulu Bāse) [b]. is a[5] Dravidian language[6] whose speakers are concentrated Dakshina Kannada and Southern part of Udupi of Karnataka in South-Western India[7] and in the northern part of the Kasaragod district of Kerala. The native speakers of Tulu are referred to as Tuluva or Tulu people and the geographical area is unofficially called Tulu Nadu.

The Indian census report of 2011 reported a total of 1,846,427 native Tulu speakers in India.[4] The 2001 census had reported a total of 1,722,768 native speakers and over 3 million speakers all over the world,[8] According to one estimate reported in 2009, Tulu is spoken by 3 to 5 million speakers in the world.[9] There is some difficulty in counting Tulu speakers who have migrated from their native region as they often get counted as Kannada speakers in Indian census reports.[1]

Separated early from Proto-South Dravidian,[10] Tulu has several features not found in Tamil–Kannada. For example, it has the pluperfect and the future perfect, like French or Spanish, but formed without an auxiliary verb.

Tulu is the primary spoken language in Tulu Nadu consisting of Dakshina Kannada and Southern part of Udupi district in west of the of Karnataka and a part of Kasaragod district of Kerala.[1][2][3][11] A significant number of native tulu speakers are found in Kalasa and Mudigere taluks of Chikkamagaluru district. Non-native speakers of Tulu include those who are residents in the Tulunadu region but who speak the Beary language, the Havyaka language and also Konkani and Koraga as their mother tongues.[12] Apart from Tulunadu, a significant emigrant population of Tulu speaking people is found in Maharashtra,[13] Bangalore, Chennai, the English-speaking world, and the Gulf countries.[14][15]

The various medieval inscriptions of Tulu from the 15th century are in the Tulu script.[1] Two Tulu epics named Sri Bhagavato and Kaveri from the 17th century were also written in the same script.[1] However, in modern times the Tulu language is mostly written using the Kannada script.[1] The Tulu language is known for its oral literature in the form of epic poems called pardana. The Epic of Siri and the legend of Koti and Chennayya belong to this category of Tulu literature.[1]

Also See

  • Tulu calendar, traditional solar calendar generally used in the regions of southwest Karnataka and the Kasaragod district
  • Tulu cinema, part of the film industry in India
  • Tulu Gowda, a subsect of the Vokkaliga community in Karnataka
  • Tulu Kingdom, a small kingdom during the period of Puranas, now thought to be the Tulu-speaking areas in southwestern Karnataka
  • Tulu language, a language spoken in Karnataka and in the Kasaragod district
  • Tulu Nadu, a Tulu-speaking region spread over parts of present Karnataka state and the Kasaragod district
  • Tulu people, an ethnolinguistic group native to the coastal Karnataka region
  • Tulu script, another name for Tigalari script
  • Tuluva dynasty, a medieval kingdom in Southern India.
  • Tuluva people


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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Steever, Sanford B (2015). The Dravidian Languages. Routledge. pp. 158–163. ISBN 9781136911644.
  2. ^ a b Susheela Thomas. "Social Aspects and Dynamics of Convergence". Archived from the original on 17 January 2008. Retrieved 11 August 2009.
  3. ^ a b [1] Archived 20 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b "ABSTRACT OF SPEAKERS' STRENGTH OF LANGUAGES AND MOTHER TONGUES - 2011" (PDF). censusindia.gov.in. Indian Census 2011, Government of India. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
  5. ^ "Five Languages in Karnataka, Including Tulu Vanishing: Unesco". www.daijiworld.com. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  6. ^ "UDUPI". Udupitourism.com. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
  7. ^ "Tulu Page, Tulu Language, History of Tulu language". www.nriol.com. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  8. ^ "Census of India - Statement 1". Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
  9. ^ Mannan, Moiz (30 August 2009), "Convention to Draw Attention to Tulu Culture", The Peninsula On-line, The Peninsula, archived from the original on 17 October 2015
  10. ^ "Language Family Trees: Dravidian, Southern", Ethnologue (16th ed.).
  11. ^ "Tulu Nadu, Kasaragod, Kerala, India". Kerala Tourism. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  12. ^ Steever, Sanford B. (1998). The Dravidian Languages. Taylor & Francis. p. 158. ISBN 0-415-10023-2.
  13. ^ "Language in India". Language in India. 5 May 2003. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
  14. ^ "Serving Mangaloreans Around The World!". Mangalorean.Com. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
  15. ^ "Dr. Veerendra Heggade in Dubai to Unite Tuluvas for Tulu Sammelan". Daijiworld.com. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
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