1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Bangladesh, India
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
- 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
Bengali and Oriya
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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
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
ḍhonyobaaḍ
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
subhoraattri
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
subha gadhuli
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
subha abeli
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
suprobhaat
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
anugroha kori
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Western Assam
Not Available
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?
15.30 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Assamesisch
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Assamese people
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Kamarupa
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Assamese
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
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
59-AAF-w
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology