1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Malawi, Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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
Zambia
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Not Available
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.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Zulu language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
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
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)
Zikomo
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Muli bwanji?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Usiku wabwino
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Madzulo abwino
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Masana abwino
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
M'mawa wabwino
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Chonde
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
pepani
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
anatsanzikana
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ndimakukondani
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Pepani
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Malawi, Zambia
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Malawi, Zambia
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 million12.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
5.3.4 French Name
singhalais
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Nyanja-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Chewa people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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
99-AUS-xaa – xag
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