How many people speak Sinhalese?

Sinhalese Speaking Population

Here you get to know how many people speak Sinhalese in percentage. The Sinhalese speaking population is 0.25 %. Sinhalese Speaking Population is the percentage of world population speaking Sinhalese language. Along with this, you can also find the dialects in Sinhalese spoken in various regions under Sinhalese Dialects. Chinese, Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world and is at the top place.

Native Sinhalese Speakers

You will get to know second language speakers of Sinhalese language as well as native Sinhalese Speakers under how many people speak Sinhalese language. There is an estimate that there are almost 16.00 million native speakers of Sinhalese language. Some languages have relatively large populations of native speakers and on other hand some languages have small population of native speakers. 2.00 million population speak Sinhalese as second language where Sinhalese is not the native language of the speaker. The number of second language speakers mentioned in how many people speak Sinhalese are those whose native language is minority language of country in which they live. They learn the second language because it is official language of the country where they reside.

Native name of Sinhalese

How many people speak Sinhalese serves you with native name of Sinhalese language. The native name of Sinhalese is සිංහල (sĩhala). Native names are the local names for the languages. The native names of the languages are used by the native speakers of that language. The alternative names of Sinhalese are Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala. The German and French names for Sinhalese language is as follows:

• French Name for Sinhalese: singhalais.
• German Name for Sinhalese: Singhalesisch.