1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
East Timor, Indonesia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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.
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Malay language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Malay and Dutch 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
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)
Terima kasih
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Apa kabar?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Selamat Malam
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Malam yang baik
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Selamat Sore
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Selamat Pagi
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
mohon Untuk
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Selamat tinggal
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Aku cinta kamu
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Permisi
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA38,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,300,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Minangkabau
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Indonesia, Malaysia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA6,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million163.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million23.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million140.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Bahasa Melayu
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Bahasa Indonesia
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Bahasa Indonesia
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Indonesians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Malay
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Indonesian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
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-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology