1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
- 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
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
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
3.2 Thank You
Thank you
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
How are you?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
I love you
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
United States of America
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Welsh English
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
United Kingdom
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
400.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
400.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
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
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard English
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed English
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
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, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
Fusional