1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
1.8 Interesting Facts
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Dutch 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
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
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Dankie
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Hoe gaan dit
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
goeie nag
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Goeienaand
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Goeie middag
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
goeie more
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
asseblief
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
jammer
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Verskoon my
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Baster Afrikaans
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million19.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million7.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Cape Dutch
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Afrikaners
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
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
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-ba
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