Tulu Nadu | |
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Region | |
Coordinates: 13°00′N 75°24′E / 13.00°N 75.40°E | |
Country | India |
State | Karnataka, Kerala |
Districts | Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, and Kasaragod |
Largest City | Mangalore |
No. of districts & Talukas | 3 District and 18 Taluks |
Area | |
• Total | 10,432 km2 (4,028 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[3] | |
• Total | 4,574,385 |
• Density | 356.1/km2 (922/sq mi) |
Demonyms | |
Languages | |
• Lingua Franca | Tulu |
• Spoken | Tulu, Malayalam, Kannada, Konkani, Beary[4] |
Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
Telephone code | 0824, 0825 |
ISO 3166 code | ISO 3166-2:IN |
Vehicle registration | KA19, KA20, KA21, KA62, KA70, KL14. |
Tulu Nadu or Tulunad is a region and a proposed state on the southwestern coast of India.[5] The Tulu people, known as 'Tuluva' (plural 'Tuluver'), speakers of Tulu, a Dravidian language, are the preponderant ethnic group of this region.[6] South Canara, an erstwhile district and a historical area, encompassing the undivided territory of the contemporary Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts of Karnataka State and Kasaragod district of Kerala state forms the cultural area of the Tuluver.[7]
Historically, Tulu Nadu lay between the Gangavalli River (Uttara Kannada district) in the north and the Chandragiri River (Kasaragod district) in the south.[8] Currently, Tulu Nadu consists of the Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts of Karnataka state and Kasaragod district of Kerala state.[9] This region is not an official administrative entity.[10][11]
Mangalore, the fourth largest (in terms of area and population)[12] and a major city of Karnataka is the largest city of Tulu Nadu.[13] Udupi and Kasaragod are the other major cities of this region.[14]
Moreover, the term "Tulunad" is cited as "Tuḷu Nāṭṭu" in the "Akananuru", which is a classical Tamil poetic work and part of the "Eight Anthologies" (Ettuthokai), a collection of Sangam literature composed around more than 2000 years ago.[15] [16]
Tulu is a southern Dravidian language that's spoken by 1.85 million people in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Kerala's Kasargod district.
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