1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
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 spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Anatolian Languages
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
Arabic, Georgian 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
හලෝ (halō)
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
ბოდიში (bodishi)
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million4.30 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million4.30 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
ქართული ენა
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Georgians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Kartvelian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Modern Georgian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic