Dear Voice, I agree with you Tulu evolved along with malayalam and is quite different from Kannada. Everyone will agree with me that Karnataka politicians(dominated by southern districts) never really lend their support to other indigenous people of KN like Tulu speaking communities in coastal karnataka, Coorgis and people from north and central karnataka. They are busy creating rifts between Tamils and Kannadigas with the help of useless vedika activists and keep the settled matters ever burning.