1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Pakistan
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
India, Pakistan
Sri Lanka
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
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
- 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
Hindi and Urdu Languages
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
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Sinhala alphabet
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, 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
Assalām ‘alaikum
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Not Available
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Hach ch'i
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Not Available
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Pogul and Paristan valleys
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.60 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.42 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Kashmiris or koshur
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
Kashmiri
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
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