Countries
Sri Lanka
  
Georgia
  
National Language
Sri Lanka
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Second Language
Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
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.
  
Similar To
Maldivian Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
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Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Vedda
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Not Available
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Kartli
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
16.00 million
  
39
4.30 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
singhalais
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Singhalesisch
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
  
Georgians
  
Origin
3
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Southern
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
  
Modern Georgian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
si
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sin
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
sin
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
sin
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sinh1246
  
nucl1302
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic