1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
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
Govenment of Goa
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- 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
Marathi
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
Devanagari
Sinhala alphabet
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, 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
3.2 Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
kaso assa?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Not Available
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Chike
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
Maf kor
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
upkar korxi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Not present
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Not present
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
7.40 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.40 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Konkanis
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
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
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
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