1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
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
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
- 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
Bhojpuri 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
Devanagari
Sinhala alphabet
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
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
dhanyabad
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Śubharātri
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
shubh sandhya
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Suprabhaat
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
kripaya
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
maf karai
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
kripaya
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
4.2.1 Where They Speak
North India
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
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?
32.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
27.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.80 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
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
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
Standard Maithili
Modern Sinhalese
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
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology