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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
- 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
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
नमस्ते (Namastē)
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
240,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
380.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
260.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
120.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Hindustani people
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
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
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
59-AAF-qf
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
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional