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
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Not Available
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 Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
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
Sinhala alphabet
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
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)
matur nuwun
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
piye kabare?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
wengi sing apik
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Sugeng sọnten
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Sugeng siang
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Sugeng énjing
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Not Available
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Nyuwun pangapunten
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Kepanggih malih benjang
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Kula tresna panjengan
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Nuwun séwu
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
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 million82.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million76.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Djawa, Jawa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Javanese
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-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology