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
Equatorial Guinea
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
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
Not Available
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)
dalụ
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
kedụ ka ịmere
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
ka chi fo
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
mgbede ọma
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
ehihie ọma
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
ụtụtụ ọma
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Biko
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
ngọpụ
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,500,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Not present
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 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Ibo
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Ibo-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Igbo people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo 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
Standard Igbo
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