1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Not Available
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
Sinhala alphabet
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
请 (Qǐng)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan 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
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating