1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
- 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
Hiligaynon Language
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Island of Cebu
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
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
Salamat
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Kumusta man ka?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Maayong Gabii
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Maayong Gabii
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Maayong Hapon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Maayong Buntag
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Palihug
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
Ikasubo ko
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Gihigugma ko ikaw
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Ekskyus mi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Southern Kana
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
southern Leyte
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
northern part of Leyte
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
NA16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
21.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
14.50 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Cebuano people
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian 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 Cebuano
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
Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology