Countries
Countries
Meghalaya
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
1
14
1
14
National Language
Bangladesh, India
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not Available
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not Available
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
- 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
Not Available
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Khasi-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
23
5
54
33
Phonology
How Many Vowels
6
3
18
15
How Many Consonants
14
4
36
26
Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
Not Available
2
1
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
44 weeks
11
Greetings
Hello
Kumno
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Khublei
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
thia sukh
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
babha janmiet
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
khublei
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Sngewbha
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Map
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
khublei
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
ieit ieit
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
map a nga
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Vedda
Where They Speak
Not Available
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
Nonglung
Not Available
Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Not Available
Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
Total No. Of Dialects
5
5
1
1
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
0.84 million
99+
16.00 million
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
0.25 %
99+
Native Speakers
0.84 million
99+
16.00 million
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
2.00 million
34
Native Name
Not Available
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
khasi
singhalais
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Sinhalese people
History
Origin
Not Available
3
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Khasi
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
Not Available
70
99+
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
No data available
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kha
sin
ISO 639 2/B
kha
sin
ISO 639 3
kha
sin
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
khas1269
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
Not Available
Fusional
