1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Balochi Academy, 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.
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Kurdish and Persian
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Ancient Indo-Iranian 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
Sinhala alphabet
Perso-Arabic script
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
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)
mana bebahgsh
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
chone tao?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
jawáin shap
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
jawáin begáh
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
jawáin sawáh
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Mihrabani kan
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
bebaksh / bebagsh
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Tu mana doost biyeh
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
mana bebahgsh
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA5,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
Western Balochi
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Southern Balochi
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,400,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million7.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million7.60 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Baluchi
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Belutschisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
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
58-AAB-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology