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
Palau
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Korean Language
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
හලෝ (halō)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
おはよう (Ohayō)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
すみません (Sumimasen)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
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 million128.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million128.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Japanese (Yamato)
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Japanese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Japanese
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
45-CAA-a
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
Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic