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.
