1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, No official status
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
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
- 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
Maithili and Magahi
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
Devanagari
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
प्रणाम (prannam)
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
राम राम (raam raam)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
राम राम (raam raam)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
राम राम (raam raam)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
राम राम (raam raam)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
प्रणाम (prannam)
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Caribbean Hindustani
Vedda
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
16,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
380,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Tharu Bhojpuri
Not Available
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?
40.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
40.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
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
Bhojpuri
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-sa
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