Countries
Countries
Burma
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
1
14
1
14
National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu 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
Kinyarwanda Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Kirundi-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
21
3
54
33
Phonology
How Many Vowels
5
2
18
15
How Many Consonants
19
9
36
26
Scripts
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
Bwakeye
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Urakoze
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Urakomeye?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Ijoro ryiza
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Mwiriwe
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Mwiriwe
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Mwaramutse
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Ndagusavye
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Not available
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
N’agasaga
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Not available
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Not available
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Vedda
Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
10
Not Available
Dialect 2
Ha
Not Available
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Not Available
How Many People Speak
990,000.00
25
Not Available
Dialect 3
Shubi
Not Available
Where They Speak
Tanzania
Not Available
How Many People Speak
153,000.00
24
Not Available
Total No. Of Dialects
6
6
1
1
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
8.80 million
99+
16.00 million
99+
Speaking Population
0.13 %
99+
0.25 %
99+
Native Speakers
8.80 million
99+
16.00 million
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
2.00 million
34
Native Name
íkiRǔndi
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Not Available
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
rundi
singhalais
German Name
Kirundi
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Sinhalese people
History
Origin
1500
3
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Kirundi
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
86
99+
70
99+
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
rn
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
run
sin
ISO 639 2/B
run
sin
ISO 639 3
run
sin
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
rund1242
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional
