1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
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.
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Italian Language
1.10 Derived From
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)
Merci
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Comment allez-vous?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
bonne Nuit
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
bonsoir
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
bon Après-Midi
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Bonjour
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
S'il vous plaît
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
désolé
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Je t'aime
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Excuse Moi
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA6,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
African French
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Swiss French
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Northeast France, Switzerland
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million163.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million76.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million87.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Français
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Französisch
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Not Available
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 French, Middle French and French
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard French
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
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
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
51-AAA-i
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
Fusional, Synthetic