Significance of Tulu Language in India
- June 15, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Significance of Tulu Language in India
Subject : Culture
Context : Recently, various organisations initiated a Twitter campaign demanding official language status to Tulu in Karnataka and Kerala and received an overwhelming response.
Concept :
About Tulu Language
- Tulu is a Dravidian language.
- It is spoken mainly in two coastal districts Dakshina Kannada and Udupi of Karnataka and Kasaragod district of Kerala.
- As per the 2011 Census report, there are 18,46,427 Tulu-speaking people in India.
- It has a rich oral literature tradition with folk-song forms like paddana, and traditional folk theatre yakshagana.
- It has an active tradition of cinema with around 5 to 7 Tulu language movies produced a year.
Present status of Tulu language
- According to Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy president Dayananda G Kathalsar, people who speak Tulu are confined to the above-mentioned regions of Karnataka and Kerala.
- They are informally known as Tulu Nadu.
- Tulu is not an official language in the country.
- If included in the eighth schedule, Tulu would get recognition from the Sahitya Akademi.