1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
Sri Lanka
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
Somalia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
- 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
Somali 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
Galatoomi
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Nagayattii buli
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Akkam waarite
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Maaloo
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
naa dhiisi
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Sin jaaladha
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00NA
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
13,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
25.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
24.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Afaan Oromo
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Galla-Sprache
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic 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
Afaan Oromo
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