1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.4 National Language
1.5 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
1.6 Speaking Continents
1.7 Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.8 Regulated By
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.9 Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.10 Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Maldivian Language
1.11 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.6.2 How Many Consonants
3.7 Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Sinhala alphabet
3.9 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
3.11 Hard to Learn
3.11.1 Language Levels
4.2.3 Time Taken to Learn
5 Greetings
5.1 Hello
5.2 Thank You
matur nuwun
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
5.3 How Are You?
piye kabare?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
5.4 Good Night
wengi sing apik
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
5.5 Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
5.6 Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
5.7 Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
5.8 Please
Not Available
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
5.9 Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
5.10 Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
බායි (bāyi)
5.11 I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
5.12 Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
6 Dialects
6.1 Dialect 1
6.1.1 Where They Speak
6.1.2 How Many People Speak
6.3 Dialect 2
6.3.1 Where They Speak
6.3.2 How Many People Speak
7.2 Dialect 3
7.2.1 Where They Speak
7.2.2 How Many People Speak
7.4 Total No. Of Dialects
8 How Many People Speak
8.1 How Many People Speak?
82.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
9.4 Speaking Population
9.5 Native Speakers
76.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
10.7.4 Second Language Speakers
10.7.5 Native Name
10.7.6 Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
10.7.7 French Name
10.7.8 German Name
10.8 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
10.9 Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Sinhalese people
11 History
11.1 Origin
11.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
11.2.1 Subgroup
11.2.2 Branch
11.3 Language Forms
11.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
11.3.2 Standard Forms
Javanese
Modern Sinhalese
11.3.3 Language Position
11.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
11.4 Scope
12 Code
12.1 ISO 639 1
12.2 ISO 639 2
12.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
12.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
12.3 ISO 639 3
12.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
12.5 Glottocode
12.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
12.7 Types of Language
12.7.1 Language Type
12.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
12.7.3 Language Morphological Typology