Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Germany
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German 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.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Danke
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
bitte
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Sri Lanka
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Deutsch
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
allemand
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
3
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Western
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional