1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Pakistan
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
India, Pakistan, Sindh
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
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
- 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
Gujarati
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
Arabic, Devanagari
Sinhala alphabet
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, 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
Assalam O Alaikum
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
Meharbani
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Kehra haal aahin
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
tava kia aayo
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Sham Jo Salam
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Assalam o Alaikum
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Subho Bakhair
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Mehrbani
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
Moon khe afsos aahe
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Maaf Kajo
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
Central Sindh
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Lower Sindh
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?
29.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 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
Not Available
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Sindhi-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
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
Not Available
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
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology