1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
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
Australia, France, United States of America
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.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Lao Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Pali and Sanskrit 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
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)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
ND
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
ND
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
ND
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
ND
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
ND
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
ND
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Western Khmer
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Cambodia, Thailand
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 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million13.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Cambodian, Khmer
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Kambodschanisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Khmer, Northern Khmer
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Proto-Khmer
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Modern Khmer
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
Not 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
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating