1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
North Dakota, United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Albanian 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
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)
Danke
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Wie geht es dir?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
gute Nacht
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
guten Abend
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
guten Tag
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
guten Morgen
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
bitte
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Verzeihung
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ich liebe dich
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Entschuldigung
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
Swabian German
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA820,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Texas German
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 million229.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million101.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million128.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Deutsch, Tedesco
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed German
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
sinh1246
high1287, uppe1397
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic