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Preferred term

tcyTulu  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Tulu (; Tulu: , തുളു ബാസെ or , [?]) is a language spoken by 1.95 million native speakers (1997) mainly in the southwest part of Indian state of Karnataka and a small part of northern Kerala, which is known as Tulu Nadu. It belongs to the Dravidian family of languages. In India, 1.72 million people speak it as their native language (2001), increased by 10 percent over the 1991 census. According to one estimate reported in 2009, Tulu is currently spoken by three to five million native speakers in the world. The native speakers of Tulu are referred to as Tuluva or Tulu people.

ISO 639-3 code

  • tcy

In other languages

  • Touloueg

    Breton

  • Tulu

    Dutch

  • Tulu

    French

  • Tulu

    German

  • तुळु

    Hindi

  • トゥル語

    Japanese

  • ತುಳು

    Kannada

  • Lingua Tuluva

    Latin

  • തുളു ഭാഷ

    Malayalam

  • तुळू भाषा

    Marathi

  • Tulu

    Norwegian

  • Język tulu

    Polish

  • Тулу

    Russian

  • Tulu

    Spanish

  • Swedish

  • துளு

    Tamil

  • తుళు

    Telugu

  • ภาษาตูลู

    Thai

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/tcy

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