1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Guangdong
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- 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
Chinese Language
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
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Sinhala alphabet
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
谢谢
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
晚安
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
早上好
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
原谅我
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Sri Lanka
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?
60.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Not Available
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan 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
Standard Cantonese
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
No data available
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