1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
Bangladesh, Burma
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Mon
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Myanmar Language Commission
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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Thai Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Pali 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
හලෝ (halō)
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA2,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA440,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA90,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million43.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million33.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Bamar people
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
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Modern Burmese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Burmese sign language
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
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating