1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
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
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
NA
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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Bengali Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
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
Devanagari
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)
નમસ્તે (namaste)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
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 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million50.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Gujarati-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Gujaratis
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Gujarati
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Modern Gujarati
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
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology