Kasaragod Tulu (
TuluA Tülu Camel is a breed of camel that results from mating a male Bactrian camel with a female Dromedary. This breed is sometimes called an F1 Hybrid Camel. The resulting camel is larger than either a Bactrian or a Dromedary, and has traditionally been used as a draft animal. This breed of camel...
: ಕಾಸರಗೋಡ್ ತುಳು) is the variety of
TuluA Tülu Camel is a breed of camel that results from mating a male Bactrian camel with a female Dromedary. This breed is sometimes called an F1 Hybrid Camel. The resulting camel is larger than either a Bactrian or a Dromedary, and has traditionally been used as a draft animal. This breed of camel...
spoken in northern
KasaragodKasaragod is a town and a municipality in Kasaragod district in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the administrative headquarters of Kasaragod District as well as of Kasaragod Taluk. The city was formerly called Kanjirakuttom...
in the state of
KeralaKerala , is a state located in southwestern India. The state was created in 1956 on linguistc basis, bringing together those places where Malayalam formed the principal language...
. This is the Southwest geographical dialect of Tulu. The Tulu spoken in this region is influenced by Malayalam and differs a little bit from Tulu spoken in
Dakshina KannadaDakshina Kannada , , is a coastal Karnataka district in the state of Karnataka in India. It is bordered by Udupi District to the north, Chikkamagaluru district to the northeast, Hassan District to the east, Kodagu to the southeast, and Kasaragod District in Kerala to the south...
and
Udupi DistrictUdupi district in the Karnataka state of India was created in August 1997. The three northern taluks, Udupi, Kundapur and Karkal, were separated from Dakshina Kannada District to form Udupi district. Udupi is famous for Ashta Matha, i.e. eight Matts and Sri Krishna Temple. Udupi is also one of...
of
KarnatakaKarnataka is a state in the southern part of India. It was created on November 1, 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act...
.
TuluvaThe Tuluvas are an linguistic ethnic group native to the Tulu Nadu region of India, presently divided amongst the Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, the Udupi district of Karnataka and the Kasaragod Taluk of Kerala. They are the native speakers of the Tulu Dravidian language...
s in Kasaragod can speak fluently in Malayalam and Kannada as well. Like
MappilaThe Mappilas refer to the Muslim community in Kerala and neighbouring states and territories of India. The term mappila in southern Kerala also refers to the Syrian Malabar Nasrani. The Mappila Muslims make up the largest community in Kerala, 24.70% of the population...
Muslims in Kasaragod, Tuluvas in Kasaragod have retained their own unique dialect of Malayalam.
Kasaragod Tulu (
TuluA Tülu Camel is a breed of camel that results from mating a male Bactrian camel with a female Dromedary. This breed is sometimes called an F1 Hybrid Camel. The resulting camel is larger than either a Bactrian or a Dromedary, and has traditionally been used as a draft animal. This breed of camel...
: ಕಾಸರಗೋಡ್ ತುಳು) is the variety of
TuluA Tülu Camel is a breed of camel that results from mating a male Bactrian camel with a female Dromedary. This breed is sometimes called an F1 Hybrid Camel. The resulting camel is larger than either a Bactrian or a Dromedary, and has traditionally been used as a draft animal. This breed of camel...
spoken in northern
KasaragodKasaragod is a town and a municipality in Kasaragod district in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the administrative headquarters of Kasaragod District as well as of Kasaragod Taluk. The city was formerly called Kanjirakuttom...
in the state of
KeralaKerala , is a state located in southwestern India. The state was created in 1956 on linguistc basis, bringing together those places where Malayalam formed the principal language...
. This is the Southwest geographical dialect of Tulu. The Tulu spoken in this region is influenced by Malayalam and differs a little bit from Tulu spoken in
Dakshina KannadaDakshina Kannada , , is a coastal Karnataka district in the state of Karnataka in India. It is bordered by Udupi District to the north, Chikkamagaluru district to the northeast, Hassan District to the east, Kodagu to the southeast, and Kasaragod District in Kerala to the south...
and
Udupi DistrictUdupi district in the Karnataka state of India was created in August 1997. The three northern taluks, Udupi, Kundapur and Karkal, were separated from Dakshina Kannada District to form Udupi district. Udupi is famous for Ashta Matha, i.e. eight Matts and Sri Krishna Temple. Udupi is also one of...
of
KarnatakaKarnataka is a state in the southern part of India. It was created on November 1, 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act...
.
TuluvaThe Tuluvas are an linguistic ethnic group native to the Tulu Nadu region of India, presently divided amongst the Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, the Udupi district of Karnataka and the Kasaragod Taluk of Kerala. They are the native speakers of the Tulu Dravidian language...
s in Kasaragod can speak fluently in Malayalam and Kannada as well. Like
MappilaThe Mappilas refer to the Muslim community in Kerala and neighbouring states and territories of India. The term mappila in southern Kerala also refers to the Syrian Malabar Nasrani. The Mappila Muslims make up the largest community in Kerala, 24.70% of the population...
Muslims in Kasaragod, Tuluvas in Kasaragod have retained their own unique dialect of Malayalam. This is an impure form of Malayalam due to the mixture of Tulu and to some extent Kannada. According to the
PuranasThe Puranas are a group of important Hindu religious texts, notably consisting of narratives of the history of the Universe from creation to destruction, genealogies of the kings, heroes, sages, and demigods, and descriptions of Hindu cosmology, philosophy, and geography...
,
Tulu NaduTulu Nadu is the Tulu speaking region of Karnataka and Kerala, India. It consists of the Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts and the northern parts of the Kasargod district of Kerala up to the river Chandragiri...
is a part of Kerala or Parasurama Kshetram, ie., "The Land of Parasurama", as the land was reclaimed from sea by Parasurama, an incarnation of Lord
MahavishnuFor the album by Mahavishnu Orchestra see Mahavishnu In Hinduism, Mahavishnu is an aspect of Vishnu, the Absolute which is beyond human comprehension and is beyond all attributes. In Vaishnavite theology, the term is similar to Brahman and Almighty God...
.
Recently, the
KeralaKerala , is a state located in southwestern India. The state was created in 1956 on linguistc basis, bringing together those places where Malayalam formed the principal language...
government has proposed to set up a Tulu academy at
ManjeshwaramManjeshwar is the northern tip of Kerala, bordering Karnataka. It is a small coastal village in Kasaragod district in the Indian state of Kerala. It is 21 km from Mangalore town...
in the
Kasaragod districtKasaragod is one of the districts of the Indian state of Kerala.Kasaragod District was organised as a separate district on 24 May 1985. It is the northernmost district of Kerala.- Overview :...
.
Similarities
The Malayalam language and the Tulu language are closely related. Though traditionally and culturally
Tulu NaduTulu Nadu is the Tulu speaking region of Karnataka and Kerala, India. It consists of the Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts and the northern parts of the Kasargod district of Kerala up to the river Chandragiri...
was a part of Kerala, it became politically aligned with Karnataka under the influence of Kannada kings. Even the food, festivals, dress, customs, rituals and lifestyle of Tuluvas and Keralites are similar. For example, Tulu and Kerala regions practiced a matrilineal system of inheritance in the past. However, very few communities have remained matrilineal. Also, the rituals of these two groups are similar as in the case of
Bhuta KolaBhuta Kola or Holy Spirit Worship is an ancient form of worship prevalent among the Tulu-speaking community in Udupi, Dakshina Kannada districts in Karnataka and Kasargod district in Kerala altenatively known as Tulu Nadu...
for Tuluvas and
TheyyamTheyyam or Theyyattam is a popular Hindu ritual of worship in North Kerala state, India, predominant in the Kolathunadu area . As a living cult with several thousand-year-old traditions, rituals and customs, it embraces almost all the castes and classes of the Hindu religion in this region...
for Malayalees.
NairNair , is the name of a Hindu Forward caste from the Southern Indian state of Kerala. They are a Kshatriya caste belonging to the Nagavanshi order...
s and
BuntA bunt is a special type of offensive technique in baseball or fastpitch softball. In a bunt play, the batter loosely holds the bat in front of the plate and intentionally taps the ball into play...
s belong to the same cast. Like Bunts and Nadavas (and other Tuluva people) Nairs too follow their own form of inheritance called
MarumakkathayamMarumakkathayam is a matrilinear system of inheritance which was followed by castes of Royal Families, Nayars, most of the Ambalavasis,Arayars, Ezhava , some tribal groups and Mappilas in North Malabar of Kerala state, South India. Unlike other Brahmin families, Payanoor Nambootiris followed...
, which is “
Aliya SantanaAliya Kattu in Tulu or Marumakkatayam in Malayalam was, a matrilineal system of property inheritance practiced by many communities in coastal Karnataka and Kerala.-Origins:...
”. Bunts have “Nayaranna bari” (bari = matriarchal lineage). The Malayalam spoken in the northern districts of Kerala and the Tulu spoken in the southern parts of Tulu Nadu are very similar. There are many Tulu and Malayalam words with the same meaning in both the languages.
Some of the examples of similarities that are seen in Kasaragod Tulu (general Tulu) and Malayalam are:
- Bolpu in Tulu means morning, the same as Vellupu in Malayalam meaning morning as well.
- Ponnu in Tulu meand girl, the same as Pennu in Malayalam means girl.
- Chaavadi in Tulu and Malayalam means Lodging house.
- Paruthy in Tulu and Malayalam means Cotton.
- Oruthy in Tulu and Malayalam means Single girl.
- Kettu in Tulu and Malayalam means Tie.
- Poo in Tulu and Malayalam means Flower.
- Pacha in Tulu and Malayalam means Green.
- Tavid in Tulu and Malayalam means Brown.
- Ari in Tulu and Malayalam means Rice
- Puchha in Tulu means cat, similar to Puucha in Malayalam meaning cat
- Undutanda in Tulu means had your food. In Malayalam the word for food is Unduvo
- Aal in Tulu is Aval in Malayalam means She.
- Unlike Tuluvas in Karnataka, Tuluvas in Kerala can pronounce ഴ (ZHA),which is only seen in Malayalam and the Tamil language
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore. Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in Malaysia, Mauritius and Réunion as well as emigrant communities around the world...
.
- Like Malayalees, Tuluvas of the region can also pronounce the letter ര (RA), which is present in the Malayalam language.
- The almost extinct Tulu script
Tulu script also known as taalegari script is the original script of the Tulu language.it evolved from the Grantha script.It bears similarity to the Malayalam script which also evovled from the Grantha....
is very similar to Malayalam scriptThe Malayalam script is an abugida of the Brahmic family, mainly used in the Indian state of Kerala to write the Malayalam language as well as other minority languages such as Paniya, Betta Kurumba, and Ravula...
.
See also
- Kasaragod Malayalam
- Tulu
A Tülu Camel is a breed of camel that results from mating a male Bactrian camel with a female Dromedary. This breed is sometimes called an F1 Hybrid Camel. The resulting camel is larger than either a Bactrian or a Dromedary, and has traditionally been used as a draft animal. This breed of camel...
- Malayalam
- History of Tulu Nadu
Tulunad, for Tulu-Nad or Nadu, is the country of the Tulu ethnic people.These also exists "Tulurvanam" or "Tulurvana" which used to be a part of Tulunadu. It is an area to the east of Kanhangad till Mercara. Karike in Kodagu or Sullia was the main seat of this area.Ballal Kings of Sullia ruled this...
- Kerala
Kerala , is a state located in southwestern India. The state was created in 1956 on linguistc basis, bringing together those places where Malayalam formed the principal language...
- History of Kerala
This article concerns itself with the history of Kerala, a state in South India.However in the pre-Christian Era Kerala had direct contact across the Arabian Sea with all the major Red Sea ports and the Mediterranean ports as the Red Sea route to Kerala coast is been considered the peakest among...
- Nair
Nair , is the name of a Hindu Forward caste from the Southern Indian state of Kerala. They are a Kshatriya caste belonging to the Nagavanshi order...
- Bunt
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