1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Thailand
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
- 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
Indonesian Language
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Tamil 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
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
terima kasih
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Apa khabar?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Selamat Malam
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Selamat Petang
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Selamat pagi
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
sila
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Selamat tinggal
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
175.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
98.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Bahasa melayu
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
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian 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
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
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