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Tulu is a Dravidian language spoken in the Tulu Nadu region of India, primarily in coastal Karnataka. It matters as an important part of the linguistic and cultural heritage of its native communities.
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- Instance of
- modern language
- Country
- India
- Image
- Tulu in Kedage font.png
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- Commons category
- Tulu language
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject India
- topic's main category
- Category:Tulu language
- writing system
- Malayalam script
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 2000000
- Wikimedia language code
- tcy
- native label
- ತುಳು
- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
- category for films in this language
- Category:Tulu-language films
- indigenous to
- Kerala
- different from
- Tollo
- described at URL
- lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=1386
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Encyclopedic overview
A Tulu speaker
The Tulu language (Tuḷu Bāse, Tigalari script: , Kannada script: ತುಳು ಬಾಸೆ, Malayalam script: തുളു ഭാഷെ; pronunciation in Tulu: [t̪uɭu baːsɛ]) is a Dravidian language whose speakers are concentrated in Dakshina Kannada and in the southern part of Udupi of Karnataka in south-western India and also in the northern parts 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.
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