Tulu as an optional subject in its Kannada post-graduation course. It has adopted syllabi from the books published by the Tulu Sahitya Academy. German missionaries Kammerer and Männer were the first people to conduct research on the language. Kammerer collected about 3,000 words and their meanings before his death. Later his work was carried on by Männer, who completed the research and published the first dictionary of the Tulu language in 1886 with the help of the then-Madras government. The effort was incomplete, as it did not cover all aspects of the language. The Govinda Pai Research Centre at MGM College, Udupi started an 18-year Tulu lexicon project in the year 1979. Different dialects, special vocabularies used for different occupational activities, rituals, and folk literature in the forms of Paād-danāas were included in this project. The Centre has also released a six-volume, trilingual, modestly priced Tulu-Kannada-English lexicon. The Tulu lexicon was awarded the Gundert Award for the best dictionary in the country in 1996. In September 2011, the Academic Council of Mangalore University accepted a proposal, to allow the university and the colleges affiliated to it to offer certificates, diplomas and postgraduate diploma courses in Tulu, both in regular and correspondence modes See also Gokak agitation List of Tulu films Aliya Kattu Notes References Further reading Caldwell, R., A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian family of languages, London: Harrison, 1856.; Reprinted London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd., 1913; rev. ed. by J. L. Wyatt and T. Ramakrishna Pillai, Madras, University of Madras, 1961, reprint Asian Educational Services, 1998. C. (1875). A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian family of languages. London: Trübner and Co., Ludgate Hill. Danielou, Alain (1985), Histoire de l'Inde, Fayard, Paris. Hall, Edith (2002), "The singing actors of antiquity" in Pat Easterling & Edith Hall, ed., Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Lauri Honko, Textualisation of Oral Epics. William Pais, Land Called South Canara. Bhat, S.L. A Grammar of Tulu: a Dravidian language. Männer, A. Tuḷu-English dictionary, Mangalore: Printed at the Basel Mission Press 1886 Männer, A. English-Tuḷu dictionary, Mangalore: Printed at the Basel Mission Press 1888 Brigel, J. A Grammar of the Tulu language, Mangalore, published by C. Stolz, Basel Mission Book & Tract Depository, 1872 Bhat D. N. S. (1967). Descriptive analysis of Tulu. Poona: Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute. Vinson, Julien