1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not Available
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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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.
- In ancient times, Bodo language was written using Assamese script and Roman script.
- Bodo Language is written using Devanagari script since 1963.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Dimasa language, Garo language, Kokborok language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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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
Devanagari
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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)
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3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Nungni khabora ma?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
मोजां हर (Mwjang Hor)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Not Available
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
मोजां फुं (Mwjang Fung)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
अननानै (Onnanwi)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Not Available
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
अननाइ नों (onnai Nwng)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
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4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Vedda
(Sønabari) Western Boro dialect
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
(Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Barpeta, Darrang, Kamrup, Nalbari
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
(Hazari) Southern Boro dialect
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Assam, India, Nepal
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 million0.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million0.60 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
बड़ो (boṛo)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Bara, Bodi, Boro, Boroni, Kachari, Mech, Meche, Mechi, Meci
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
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5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Bodo, Mech, (Assamese)
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
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6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Not Available
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
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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
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
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7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology