1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
India, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Jammu and Kashmir, India
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
Not Available
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.
- Dogri is derived from Sanskrit, but it has absorbed a large number of Arabic, Persian and English words.
- Dogri language has its own grammar and dictionary. The grammar of dogri has very strong sanskrit base.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Hindi and Punjabi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit 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
Sinhala alphabet
Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Perso-Arabic script
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
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
dhanwaad
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
kiyaan oo ji
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
shub ratri
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
shub ratri
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
su prabat
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
kripya
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
mere kaulan galti ooyyii
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
changa ji pher
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Minjo tere naal pyar hega
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
gustakhi maaf
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Himachal Pradesh, India
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA100,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Georgia, Himachal Pradesh, India
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA110,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
France, Himachal Pradesh, India
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million4.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million4.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Dhogaryali, Dogari, Dogri Jammu, Dogri Pahari, Dogri-Kangri, Dongari, Hindi Dogri, Tokkaru
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
Indo-European 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
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
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
Not Available
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