![]() A significant number of native Tulu speakers are found in Kalasa and Mudigere taluks of Chikkamagaluru district and also found in Thirthahalli taluks of Shivamogga district. Tulu is the primary spoken language in Tulu Nadu, consisting of the Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts in the western part of Karnataka and the northern part of Kasaragod district of Kerala. For example, it has the pluperfect and the future perfect, like French or Spanish, but formed without an auxiliary verb. Separated early from Proto-South Dravidian, Tulu has several features not found in Tamil–Kannada. There is some difficulty in counting Tulu speakers who have migrated from their native region as they are often counted as Kannada speakers in Indian census reports. The 2001 census had reported a total of 1,722,768 native speakers. The Indian census report of 2011 reported a total of 1,846,427 native Tulu speakers in India. The native speakers of Tulu are referred to as Tuluva or Tulu people and the geographical area is unofficially called Tulu Nadu. ![]()
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