1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- 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
Not Available
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 (Xièxiè)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
请 (Qǐng)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
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 Chinese
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional