Tulu
Indian Dravidian language of Tulu Nadu region
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Summary
Tulu is a natural language[1]. Tulu draws 3,111 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #108 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: India[3]
- Instance of: modern language[4]
- Subclass of: Tulu[5]
- Writing system: Kannada script[6], Tigalari[7], Malayalam script[8]
- Commons category: Tulu language[9]
- Wikimedia language code: tcy[10]
- Topic's main category: Category:Tulu language[11]
- Described at URL: https://lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=1386[12]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 2,000,000[13]
- Native label: ತುಳು[14]
- Different from: Tollo[15]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[16]
- Indigenous to: Karnataka[17], Kerala[18]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/TCY[19]
- Ethnologue language status: 5 Developing[20]
- Linguistic typology: agglutinative language[21]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Tulu-language films[22]
- Maintained by WikiProject: Obelepédia[23], WikiProject Languages[24], WikiProject Languages of India[25], WikiProject India[26], WikiProject Karnataka[27], WikiProject Anthropology[28], WikiProject Oral tradition[29], WikiProject Dravidian languages[30]
Why It Matters
Tulu has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] Tulu is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]