Info of Tulu language

The Indian census report of 2011 reported a total of 1,846,427 native Tulu speakers in India.^[4] The 2001 census had reported a total of 1,722,768 native speakers,^[7] According to one estimate reported in 2009, Tulu is spoken by 3 to 5 million speakers in the world.^[8] There is some difficulty in counting Tulu speakers who have migrated from their native region as they often get counted as Kannada speakers in Indian Census reports^[1]

Separated early from Proto-South Dravidian,^[9]Tulu has several features not found in Tamil–Kannada. For example, it has the pluperfectand 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, "Tulu is one of the most highly developed languages of the Dravidian family. It looks as if it had been cultivated for its own sake."^[10][11]

Tulu is the primary spoken language in Tulu Nadu consisting of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi district of Karnataka and a part of Kasaragod district of Kerala.^{[1][2][3][12]}Significant number of native tulu speakers are found in Kalasa and Mudigere taluks of Chikkamagaluru district. Non-native speakers of Tulu include those who speak the Beary language, Havyaka and Gowda dialects of Kannada as also Konkani, Koraga resident in the Tulunadu region.^[13] Apart from Tulunadu, a significant emigrant population of Tulu speaking people is found in Maharashtra,^[14]Bangalore, Chennai, the English-speaking world, and the Gulf countries.^[15][16]

The various medieval inscriptions of Tulu from the 15th century are in the Tulu script.^[1] Two Tulu epics named Sri Bhagavato and Kaverifrom the 17th century were also written in the same script.^[1] However, in modern times the Tulu language is mostly written using the Kannada script.^[1] The Tulu language is known for its oral literature in the form of epic poems called Paddana. The Epic of Siri and the legend of Koti and Chennayya belong to this category of Tulu literature.^[1]

Alupa dynasty

The Alupas as a feudatory of the Western Chalukyas in coastal Karnataka issued coins with Kannada and Nagari inscriptions on them. Coins with Kannada legends seem to have minted in Mangalore and those with Nagari legend at the Udupi mint. Kannada was their language of administration. The Pagodas and Fanams were the common coinage of all the Alupa kings. The obverse of the coins carried the royal emblem "Two Fishes" and the reverse had the legend "Sri Pandya Dhanamjaya" either in Nagari or old (Hale) Kannada.^[16]

This paragraph is about the inscription found at Neelavara temple of Udupi district. This is all about the grant in "Gadyana" denomination. The Alupas while ruling from Barakuru showed great interest in the development of temple. This record is of the Alupa ruler Veerapandyadeva, dated 1258 CE mentions about his instruction to "neeruvara munnuru" i.e. Neeruvara-300, the modern Neelavara village Assembly. It states that after paying 100 gadyanas (coins) to the palace and 30 gadyanas to Adhikari, remaining 30 gadyanas, should be used by the village assembly for its expense. Yet another inscription of Veerapandyadeva's queen Ballamahadevi, the next ruler is also seen here. The record mentions that when Ballamahadevi was ruling her kingdom with the help of samastapradanas, Deshi purushas, Bahattara niyogis and Rishi Purohita, she gave a grant to Niruvara Bhagavati, out of 100 honnus that is paid to the palace. This inscription was written by Keshava Senabhova as mentioned in the epigraph.

The Alupas were one of the three dynasties that issued gold coins as early as 8th century CE. The gold that used to mint coins came from trade with the Romans, Arabs and from the adjacent kingdom of Gangas. No other ancient dynasties of the south have issued that many varieties of gold coins as Alupas and Gangas did. The coins of both Gangas and Alupas have inscriptions that helps in dating the period of issue. Unfortunately these coins have not drawn much attention compared to that of Chalukyas or Hoysals. But for sure, they have inspired later dynasties as a prototype or basis to issue coins. Shown below is the hand-drawing of some of the Pandya Gadyanas (Alupa coins) obverse image.

Mental people of Northern Karnataka

Today, day 2 after the government has decided to give the permission for selling liquor. We can see that people from north Karnataka are drunk and hitting their family members. I ask a question to these people, why are you taking government for granted. They have given this opportunity not to hit your family members, to take out your frustration. Please I request you people don’t hit your family members 

Differences between People of Tulunadu and Other Parts of Karnataka

As Karnataka Government has announced that wine shops around Karnataka can be open , but people of Kalburgi Davanagere and other districts are doing a very none sense things which has made a matter of tension. People are performing pooja to god for opening wine shops . In this situation people of tulunadu won’t do these things . But our Tulunadu people won’t do such things. These matters won’t understood by people of these districts. Please learn something from our people. 

Tulunadu heaven land

Tulunadu a land for rich heritage and culture. It is special for its food and also dance form. This land starts from udipi district of karnataka to kasargodu district of kerala. Language spoken here are Tulu, Konkani, Beary etc. Special food kori rotti. Special dance form yakshagana. A place of huge opportunity. Many people like Aishwarya Rai Bacchan have brought a great name for this land.