Puttur Taluk is a taluka in Dakshina Kannada district of the Indian state of Karnataka. The headquarters is the town of Puttur. There are thirty-seven Panchayat villages in Puttur Taluka.[1]

Languages (1951)

Languages in Puttur Taluk (1951)[2]

  Tulu (59.5%)
  Malayalam (15.4%)
  Kannada (12.2%)
  Konkani (6.9%)
  Other (6.0%)

Notes

  1. "Reports of National Panchayat Directory: Village Panchayat Names of Puttur, Dakshin Kannad, Karnataka". Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India. Archived from the original on 15 February 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  2. J. I. Arputhanathan (1955). South Kanara, The Nilgiris, Malabar and Coimbatore Districts (Village-wise Mother-tongue Data for Bilingual or Multilingual Taluks) (PDF). Madras Government Press.

12°47′N 075°22′E / 12.783°N 75.367°E / 12.783; 75.367


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