1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
European Union, Finland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Estonian and Livonian 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)
Kiitos
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Mitä kuuluu?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
hyvää yötä
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Hyvää iltaa
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Hyvää iltapäivää
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Hyvää huomenta
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
haluta
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Anteeksi
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Minä rakastan sinua
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Anteeksi
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
Finland, Rauma
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Finland, Sweden
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million5.40 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million5.40 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
suomi / suomen kieli
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Suomi
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
ethnic Finns
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Proto-Finnic language
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
standard Finnish
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Finnish
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
No data available
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
Agglutinative, Synthetic