1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
France, Germany, Indonesia
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
German and English Languages
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
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)
dankjewel
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
hoe gaat het met je?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
goede Nacht
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
goedenavond
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
goedemiddag
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
goedemorgen
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
alsjeblieft
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ik hou van jou
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
pardon
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA590,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Belgium, Netherlands
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,300,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million22.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Nederlands
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Hollands, Nederlands
5.3.4 French Name
singhalais
néerlandais; flamand
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Niederländisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Dutch people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Dutch
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
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
52-ACB-a
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