Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
France, Spain
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
  
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.
  
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Spanish
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Basque-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
Kaixo
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
Eskerrik asko
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Zer moduz?
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Gabon
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Arratsalde on
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Arratsalde on
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Egun on
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Mesedez
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Barkatu
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
Agur
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Maite zaitut
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Barkatu
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Navarro-Lapurdian
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
France
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Souletin
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
France, Soule, Spain
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Biscayan
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Spain
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
7.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
7.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Not available
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
  
French Name
singhalais
  
basque
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Baskisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Basque people
  
Origin
3
  
c. 1000
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Vasconic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Basque
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
eu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
eus
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
baq
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
eus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
basq1248
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
40-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative
  
Sinhalese and Basque Speaking population
Sinhalese and Basque speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Basque languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Basque Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Basque language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Sinhalese and Basque on Sinhalese vs Basque where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sinhalese and Basque Language Codes
Sinhalese and Basque language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Basque Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.