Tulu language
- Various organisations initiated a Twitter campaign demanding official language status to Tulu in Karnataka and Kerala and requesting the governments to include this language in the 8th schedule of the Constitution.
- Tulu is a Dravidian language spoken mainly in Udupi of Karnataka and Kasaragod district of Kerala.
- As per the 2011 Census report, there are 18,46,427 Tulu-speaking people in India.
- Some scholars suggest Tulu is among the earliest Dravidian languages with a history of 2000 years.
- People who speak Tulu are confined to the above-mentioned regions of Karnataka and Kerala, informally known as Tulu Nadu.
- The Karnataka government introduced Tulu as a language in schools a few years ago.
- There is the demand for separate statehood for Tulu Nadu
8th Schedule of Indian Constitution:
- The Constitutional provisions relating to the Eighth Schedule occur in article 344(1) and 351 of the Constitution.
- consists of the following 22 languages:- (1) Assamese, (2) Bengali, (3) Gujarati, (4) Hindi, (5) Kannada, (6) Kashmiri, (7) Konkani, (8) Malayalam, (9) Manipuri, (10) Marathi, (11) Nepali, (12) Oriya, (13) Punjabi, (14) Sanskrit, (15) Sindhi, (16) Tamil, (17) Telugu, (18) Urdu (19) Bodo, (20) Santhali, (21) Maithili and (22) Dogri.
- 14 were initially included in the Constitution.
- Sindhi language was added in 1967.
- Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali were included in 1992.
- Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali were added in 2004.