Tulu language

Tulu language

      member of the Dravidian language (Dravidian languages) family, spoken in southern Karnataka (Karnātaka) state, India. Tulu has borrowed many words from the Kannada language, the official language of Karnataka, but they are not closely related. Tulu has no written tradition. In the early 21st century Tulu was spoken by some two million people.

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti
 

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