Tulu

Indian Dravidian language of Tulu Nadu region
Intangible natural_language Q34251
Tulu
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Tulu

Summary

Tulu is a natural language[1]. Tulu draws 1,486 Wikipedia views per month (natural_language category, ranking #108 of 734).[2]

Key Facts

  • Tulu is in the country of India[3].
  • Tulu's instance of is recorded as natural language[4].
  • Tulu's instance of is recorded as modern language[5].
  • Tulu is a type of Tulu[6].
  • Tulu's writing system is recorded as Kannada script[7].
  • Tulu's writing system is recorded as Tigalari[8].
  • Tulu's writing system is recorded as Malayalam script[9].
  • Tulu's Commons category is recorded as Tulu language[10].
  • Tulu's Wikimedia language code is recorded as tcy[11].
  • Tulu's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 12.5, 'lon': 75}[12].
  • Tulu's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tulu language[13].
  • Tulu's described at URL is recorded as https://lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=1386[14].
  • Tulu's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+2000000'}[15].
  • Tulu's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'tcy', 'text': 'ತುಳು'}[16].
  • Tulu's different from is recorded as Tollo[17].
  • Tulu's UNESCO language status is recorded as 2 vulnerable[18].
  • Tulu's indigenous to is recorded as Karnataka[19].
  • Tulu's indigenous to is recorded as Kerala[20].
  • Tulu's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/TCY[21].
  • Tulu's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 5 Developing[22].
  • Tulu's linguistic typology is recorded as agglutinative language[23].
  • Tulu's category for films in this language is recorded as Category:Tulu-language films[24].
  • Tulu's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as Q131938994[25].
  • Tulu's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Languages[26].
  • Tulu's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Languages of India[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include natural language[4] and modern language[5]. Tulu is a type of Tulu[6].

Why It Matters

Tulu draws 1,486 Wikipedia views per month (natural_language category, ranking #108 of 734).[2] Tulu has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Tulu is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from Tollo
    Coordinate location {'lat': 12.5, 'lon': 75}
    Category for films in this language Category:Tulu-language films
    Country
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 29061, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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