1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
- 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
Malay language
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
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
3.2 Thank You
Terima kasih
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Apa kabar?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Selamat Malam
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Malam yang baik
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
mohon Untuk
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Selamat tinggal
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Permisi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Minangkabau
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
163.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
23.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
140.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Indonesians
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Malay
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Indonesian
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
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-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology