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Tulu is an endangered Dravidian language whose speakers are concentrated in two coastal districts Dakshina Kannada and Udupi of Karnataka in South-Western India and in the northern part of the Kasaragod district of Kerala. 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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South Canara was a district of the Madras Presidency of British India, located at 13.00°N 75.40°E. It covered the areas of the present-day Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts of Karnataka, and the Kasaragod District of Kerala. South Canara was one of the most heterogeneous areas of Madras Presidency, with Tulu, Kannada, Malayalam, Arebashe, Konkani, Urdu, & Beary languages being spoken side by side. It was succeeded by Dakshina Kannada in 1947.
The Manus languages are a subgroup of about two dozen Oceanic languages located on Manus Island and nearby offshore islands in Manus Province of Papua New Guinea. The exact number of languages is difficult to determine because they form a dialect continuum. The name 'Manus' originally designated an ethnic group whose members spoke closely related languages and whose coastal dwellers tended to build their houses on stilts out over the sea.
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Tulu may refer to:
Beary or Byari is a Dravidian language spoken by the Muslim communities mainly of Karnataka and some parts of North Kerala (Byaris). Bearys speak a language made of Malayalam idioms with Tulu phonology and grammar. This language is traditionally known as Mappila Bashe because of Bearys' close contact with Mappila, the Malayali Muslims. Due to the intensive influence of Tulu for centuries, it is today considered close to both Tulu and Malayalam.
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- 1 2 Tulu-Bohuai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
