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`Tulu can become classical language'

By Our Staff Correspondent

M.K. Seetharama Kulal (left) taking charge as the president of the Karnataka State Tulu Sathiya Academy from the outgoing president, Vaman Nandavar, in Mangalore on Wednesday. The former Chief Minister, M. Veerappa Moily (centre), is seen.

MANGALORE, MARCH 30. The Karnataka State Tulu Academy President, M.K. Seetharam Kulal, who took charge here on Wednesday, said Tulu language had all the attributes of a classical language as it had nurtured a highly cultured folk art of Yakshagana and other folk arts over the last few centuries. Including it in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution will benefit it, he added.

Mr. Kulal said though his work in literary Tulu was less compared to his worthy successors, he felt Tulu was a language of not only a few classes but also one that had culture and belonged to a larger canvass of society.

Those who spoke Kannada, Konkani and Kodava also spoke Tulu which made it a widely spoken language. This called for a revival of literary, spoken and colloquial Tulu. This could be done by setting up a research place for learning, documentation and research.

The former Chief Minister, M. Veerappa Moily, said Tulu was one of the earliest noted Dravidian languages and was next only to Telugu. He said when Tulu, Konkani and Kodava sahitya academies were set up in 1993 when he was Chief Minister he had only one thing in mind: that the languages were storehouses of culture and knowledge and they should be given impetus to expand and reach out to researchers, scholars and general users of the languages.

These academies had worked well and Konkani language had been included the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. He said he would again start a movement to get Tulu included in the Eighth Schedule with help from Tulu scholars such as B.A. Vivek Rai and Vaman Nandavar and the President of the Tulu Academy.

The outgoing president of the Academy, Dr. Vaman Nandavar, spoke.

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