1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Ethiopic
Sinhala alphabet
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
amesege'nallo'
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Dehina newot?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Dehna dur
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
melkam meshe't
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
i'bakwon
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
aznallehu
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
afekirishalehu
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
yiqirta
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
18.70 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology