1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
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
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
- 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
Kurdish and Persian
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Ancient Indo-Iranian 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
Perso-Arabic script
Sinhala alphabet
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
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
mana bebahgsh
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
chone tao?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
jawáin shap
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
jawáin begáh
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Not Available
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
jawáin sawáh
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Mihrabani kan
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
bebaksh / bebagsh
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Tu mana doost biyeh
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
mana bebahgsh
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Western Balochi
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Southern Balochi
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
7.60 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.60 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Baluchi
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Belutschisch
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
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
58-AAB-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