1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Sri Lanka
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
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
- 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
Kalanga and Nambya 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
Waita zvako
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Manheru
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Masikati
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Mangwanani
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Ndinokumbirawo
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
Ndineurombo
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ndinokuda
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Pamusoro
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
4.2.1 Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
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?
25.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.30 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Schona-Sprache
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Not Available
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Not Available
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
99-AUT-a
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