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
Māori Language Commission
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
- The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
- 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
Tahitian 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
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
Mauruuru koutou
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
E pēhea ana koe ?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Night pai
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
pai ahiahi
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Afternoon pai
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Morning pai
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Tēnā
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
Aroha mai
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Aroha ahau ki a koe
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
tukua ahau
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
Western North Island Maori
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
New Zealand
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Eastern North Island Maori
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
New Zealand
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?
0.18 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.18 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
te Reo Māori
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
New Zealand Maori
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Maori-Sprache
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Māori people
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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
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