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Tulu is a language spoken by 10 million native speakers mainly in the southwest part of Indian Dakshina Kannada district of state of Karnataka and a small part of northern Kerala, which is known as Tulu Nadu/Mangaluru/Dakshina Kannada. It belongs to the Dravidian family of languages. In India, 7.5 million people speak it as their native language, increased by 10 percent over the 1991 census. According to one estimate reported in 2009, Tulu is currently spoken by three to five million native speakers in the world. Native speakers of Tulu are referred to as Tuluva or Tulu people. Separated early from Proto-South Dravidian, Tulu has several features not found in Tamil–Kannada. For example, it has the pluperfect and the future perfect, like French or Spanish, but formed without an auxiliary verb. Robert Caldwell, in his pioneering work A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian family of languages, called this language peculiar and very interesting. According to him, Tuḷu is one of the most highly developed languages of the Dravidian family. It looks as if it had been cultivated for its own sake. The language has a lot of written literature and a rich oral literature such as the Epic of Siri. Tulu is the language in Tulu Nadu, a region comprising the districts of Udupi excluding kundapur, Byndore and Brahmavar areas and Dakshina Kannada in the west of the state of Karnataka and Kasaragod taluk of Kerala. Apart from Tulu Nadu, a significant emigrant population of Tuluva people is found in Maharashtra, Bangalore and the Gulf countries. The Malayalis, Konkani-speaking Mangalorean Catholics, Gowda Saraswath Brahmins, Karhade Brahmins and Daivajnas, as well as the Beary people are language groups in Tulu Nadu. The language was originally written using the Tulu script, which is an adaptation of Grantha script. At the beginning of the 20th century the original script was abandoned in favour of the Kannada script.
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