Tulu in India

Speakers

1,846,427

Type

Location

Tulu in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Tulu in India

Size

1,846,427

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
No
Administrative units of the country
Southern India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

Comments
Kölver, Bernhard. 1969. Tuḷu texts: with glossary ; Dravidian tales from the South of India. Wiesbaden: Steiner. xiv+66pp.

Thamma Laxman (M. Laxman) 2023. Tulu Bellitereye Suvrana Yaana Trade-only product Book 978-93-5811-285-6 07/02/2023

Dr Radhakrishna Belluru 2022. Tulu shasanagalu . Prasaranga mangalore university 978-93-95283-11-3.

Dr. Prabhakar Neermarga 2022. Tulu Baduku. Tirumala Prakashana 978-81-950709-4-7

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Video

Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQR4gb6Xs9M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV_P_khDAAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD8N0VETpsw

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Audio

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Documentation: descriptions

Comments
Bhatt, Sooda Lakshminarayana. 1971. A Grammar of Tulu (A Dravidian Language). Ann Arbor: UMI. (Doctoral dissertation, Madison: University of Wisconsin; viii+577pp.)

J. Brigel. 1872. A Grammar of the Tulu Language. New Delhi: Mangalore: C. Stolz. iv+139pp. (Republished by Asian Educational Services, Delhi, 1982.)

Bhatt, Sooda Lakshminarayana. 1971. A grammar of Tulu: a Dravidian language. PhD thesis. Madison, Univiversity of Wisconsin.

Shankara Bhat, D. N. 1962. Descriptive analysis of Tulu. (Doctoral dissertation, Poona: Deccan College; viii+282pp.)

Männer, A. 1888. English-Tulu dictionary. Mangalore: Basel Mission Press. (S. 346 - 653 (bibliogr. keine Nachweise über weitere Teilbände) English and Tulu (Tulu in Kannada script)).

https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/tulu1258

Tulu–English Dictionary by M. Mariappa Bhat; A. Shanker Kedilaya. https://archive.org/details/tuluenglishdicti00mari/mode/2up

Standardization

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

Size / Number of users

Number of users

1846427
Source
census
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)

Age distribution of users

0
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)

Age distribution of users

percentage of members of older generations (> 65)

Generational use

Educational attainment

No education
Early childhood education
Primary education
Lower secondary education
Higher secondary education
Tertiary education

Occupational qualifications

Elementary occupations
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Craft and related trades workers
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Services and sales workers
Clerical support workers
Technicians and associate professionals
Professionals
Managers

Language competence

Language not used
Understand little, speak/sign none
Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use
Comments
State/District

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Completion