Tulu

Also known as tcy, Tulu language

Indian Dravidian language of Tulu Nadu region

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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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Vinony's link graph records 1,150 inbound references to Tulu, and connects out to Kasaragod, Sauria Paharia and Bhuta Kola.

It is catalogued under topics including Agglutinative languages, Culture of Kasaragod district and Culture of Tulu Nadu.

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Described at

ABVD: Tulu

A Database of Basic Austronesian Vocabulary

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Commons category: Tulu language
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 2000000
Wikimedia language code: tcy
native label: ತುಳು
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/TCY
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: 𑎡𑎻𑎳𑎻 𑎨𑎸𑎱𑏂, 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tulu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.