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
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Prakrit 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
Devanagari
Sinhala alphabet
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, 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
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
कृपया (kripayā)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
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
Not present
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Not present
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
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?
14.10 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
14.10 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
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
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Sinhalese people
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
Vedic Sanskrit
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Sanskrit
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
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology