Countries
Sri Lanka
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
National Language
Sri Lanka
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
Second Language
Sri Lanka
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Not Available
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.
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Not Available
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Latin
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Thank you
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
How are you?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Night
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Evening
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Afternoon
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Good Morning
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Please
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Sorry
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
I love you
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Excuse Me
Dialect 1
Vedda
American English
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
United States of America
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Not Available
Hiberno-English
Where They Speak
Not Available
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not Available
Welsh English
Where They Speak
Not Available
United Kingdom
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
English
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Not Available
French Name
singhalais
anglais
German Name
Singhalesisch
Englisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Not Available
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard English
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed English
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
engs
Glottocode
sinh1246
stan1293
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ABA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
Sinhalese and English Speaking population
Sinhalese and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and English languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Sinhalese and English on Sinhalese vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sinhalese and English Language Codes
Sinhalese and English language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and English Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.