1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
NA
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
- 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
Bengali Language
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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
Devanagari
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
નમસ્તે (namaste)
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
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?
60.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
50.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Gujarati
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
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
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology