1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
- 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
Armenian
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
Arabic, Latin
Sinhala alphabet
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
γεια σας (geia sas)
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
αντίο (antío)
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
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
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
13.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
13.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
singhalais
5.3.5 German Name
Neugriechisch
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Greek
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
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
56-AAA-a
No data available
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
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional