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Tulu and the demand for official language status

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  • Published
    17th Jun, 2021

Various organisations initiated a campaign demanding official language status to Tulu in Karnataka and Kerala.

Context

Various organisations initiated a campaign demanding official language status to Tulu in Karnataka and Kerala.

About Tulu and its history

  • Tulu is a Dravidian language spoken mainly in two coastal districts Dakshina Kannada and Udupi of Karnataka and Kasaragod district of Kerala.
  • This region is also known as ‘Tulu Nadu’.
  • Tulu is among the earliest Dravidian languages with a history of 2000 years.
  • Tulu has a rich oral literature tradition with folk-song forms like paddana, and traditional folk theatre yakshagana.

Languages in the Eight schedule

  • Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithili and Dogri are the 22 languages presently in the eighth schedule to the Constitution.
    • Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali were added in 2004.

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