Tulu

Why in News?

• Demand Grows For Tulu To Be Included In The Eighth Schedule Of Constitution  

About

• Tulu is a Dravidian language spoken mainly in two coastal districts Dakshina Kannada and Udupi of Karnataka and Kasaragod district of Kerala

• Robert Caldwell in his book, A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages, called Tulu “one of the most highly developed languages of the Dravidian family”

• Tulu has a rich oral literature tradition with folk-song forms like paddana, and traditional folk theatre yakshagana

• Kasaragod district is called ‘Sapta Bhasha Samgama Bhumi (the confluence of seven languages)’, and Tulu is among the seven (Other includes Malayalam, Beary, Konkani, Kannada, Urdu and Marathi)

• The Yuelu Proclamation 2018, made by the UNESCO at Changsha, China, focuses on “protection and promotion of linguistic diversity ‘

• Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithili and Dogri are the 22 languages presently in the eighth schedule to the Constitution