Tulu

About Tulu

Tulu is a Dravidian language spoken on the coast of southwestern India, around Mangaluru and Udupi in Karnataka and in the north of Kerala, a region known as Tulu Nadu. The 2011 census of India counted about 1.8 million speakers. Today Tulu is usually written in the Kannada script, though it has an older script of its own called Tigalari.

FamilyDravidian
Speakersabout 1.8 million (2011)
Where spokenIndia (Karnataka, Kerala)
Statusvulnerable (UNESCO)
ScriptKannada script, historically Tigalari
Codetcy (ISO 639-3)

Speaker number: Census of India (2011). Classification: Wikidata. Retrieved 26 September 2026.

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