1 Countries
1.1 Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
East Asia, European Union
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, South America
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Akademio de Esperanto
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international 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
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
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
Dankon
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Kiel vi sanas?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Bonan nokton
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Bonan vesperon
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Bonan posttagmezon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Bonan matenon
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Mi petas
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
Mi bedaŭras!
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Mi amas vin
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Pardonu!
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
Not present
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not present
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Not present
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not present
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?
2.20 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.20 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[espeˈranto]
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
Proto-Esperanto
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Esperanto
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
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
51-AAB-da
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