Countries
China, Kazakhstan, Russia
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Gambia, Kazakhstan
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Afganistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Kazakh language agency
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Interesting Facts
- The Kazakh language can be written using a variety of scripts.
- Kazakh Language contains many words from Russian, Arabic, Mongol, Persian and other Turkic 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.
  
Similar To
Turkish and Uzbek Languages
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Kazakh-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
өтінемін (ötinemin)
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
bye
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Northeastern Kazakh
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Southern Kazakh
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Western Kazakh
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
11.00 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
kazakh
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Kasachisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Kazahks
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
17th Century
  
3
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Northwestern (Kipchak)
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Kazakh
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
kk
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kaz
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
kaz
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
kaz
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kaza1248
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional