1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
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
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- 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
Farsi Language
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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, Cyrillic, Latin
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
3.2 Thank You
Sipas
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Şev xweş
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Evare baş
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Bayanit bash
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Bê zehmet
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
Bibûre
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
21.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
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
Not Available
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
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
58-AAA-a
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