1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Sri Lanka
1.5 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
1.7 Speaking Continents
1.9 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.11 Regulated By
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.13 Interesting Facts
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.15 Similar To
Munda Language
Maldivian Language
1.17 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.3 Alphabets
3.5 Phonology
3.6.2 How Many Vowels
3.6.4 How Many Consonants
3.10 Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Sinhala alphabet
3.11 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
3.12 Hard to Learn
3.12.1 Language Levels
3.12.3 Time Taken to Learn
5 Greetings
5.1 Hello
5.3 Thank You
Adi Johar
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
5.5 How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
5.7 Good Night
Boge Ninda
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
5.9 Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
5.11 Good Afternoon
Not Available
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
5.13 Good Morning
Boge Setak’
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
5.15 Please
Not Available
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
5.17 Sorry
Not Available
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
6.2 Bye
Not Available
බායි (bāyi)
6.3 I Love You
Not Available
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
6.4 Excuse Me
Not Available
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
7.1.1 Where They Speak
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
7.2 Dialect 2
Not present
Not Available
7.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
7.3.2 How Many People Speak
7.4 Dialect 3
Not present
Not Available
7.5.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
7.5.3 How Many People Speak
7.7 Total No. Of Dialects
8 How Many People Speak
9.2 How Many People Speak?
6.30 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
9.4 Speaking Population
9.5 Native Speakers
6.30 million16.00 million
0.13
873
9.5.1 Second Language Speakers
9.6.1 Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
9.7.1 Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
10.1.1 French Name
10.2.1 German Name
10.3 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
10.5 Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Sinhalese people
11 History
11.1 Origin
11.2 Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
11.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
11.2.2 Branch
11.3 Language Forms
11.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
11.3.2 Standard Forms
11.3.3 Language Position
12.7.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
12.8 Scope
13 Code
13.1 ISO 639 1
13.2 ISO 639 2
13.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
13.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
13.3 ISO 639 3
13.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
13.5 Glottocode
13.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
13.7 Types of Language
13.7.1 Language Type
13.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
13.7.3 Language Morphological Typology