Countries
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
France, Spain
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
  
Similar To
Spanish
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Basque-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Kaixo
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Eskerrik asko
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Zer moduz?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Gabon
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Arratsalde on
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Arratsalde on
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Egun on
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Mesedez
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Barkatu
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Agur
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Maite zaitut
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Barkatu
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Navarro-Lapurdian
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
France
  
Sri Lanka
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Souletin
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
France, Soule, Spain
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Biscayan
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Spain
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.20 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.20 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Not available
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
basque
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Baskisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Basque people
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
c. 1000
  
3
  
Language Family
Vasconic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Basque
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
eu
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eus
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
baq
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
eus
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
basq1248
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
40-AAA-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional
  
Basque and Sinhalese Speaking population
Basque and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Basque and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Basque and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Basque language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Basque and Sinhalese on Basque vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Basque and Sinhalese Language Codes
Basque and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Basque and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.