Sinhalese and Khasi
Countries
Sri Lanka
Meghalaya
National Language
Sri Lanka
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Sri Lanka
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Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not Available
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
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Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
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Khasi-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Language Levels
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Time Taken to Learn
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Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Khublei
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
thia sukh
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
khublei
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sngewbha
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Map
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
map a nga
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
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Dialect 2
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Nonglung
Where They Speak
Not Available
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Dialect 3
Not Available
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
Not Available
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Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
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Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
singhalais
khasi
German Name
Singhalesisch
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Khasi people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Indic
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Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Khasi
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Not Available
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Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
si
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
sinh1246
khas1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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All Sinhalese and Khasi Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Sinhalese and Khasi dialects. Various dialects of Sinhalese and Khasi language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Sinhalese are spoken in different Sinhalese Speaking Countries whereas Khasi Dialects are spoken in different Khasi speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Sinhalese vs Khasi Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda, Not Available. Khasi dialects include: Bhoi , Nonglung. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Sinhalese and Khasi Speaking population
Sinhalese and Khasi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sinhalese and Khasi languages can be compared. The total count of Sinhalese and Khasi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Khasi language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Sinhalese and Khasi on Sinhalese vs Khasi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Sinhalese and Khasi Language Codes
Sinhalese and Khasi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Sinhalese and Khasi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.
