1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not Available
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.
Not Available
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Persian
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, NA
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)
Thank you
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
how are you
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good night
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Good morning
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Please
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
i love you
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
excuse me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Eastern Iraq, Western Iran
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
0.0.1 How Many People Speak
NA1,000,000.00
1400
96000000
1.4 Total No. Of Dialects
2 How Many People Speak
2.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million0.00 million
0.13
1200
2.2 Speaking Population
2.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million0.00 million
0.13
873
2.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million89.00 million
0.01
400
2.3.2 Native Name
2.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Lori, Luri, Luristani
2.3.4 French Name
2.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Not Available
2.4 Pronunciation
2.5 Ethnicity
3 History
3.1 Origin
3.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
3.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
3.2.2 Branch
3.3 Language Forms
3.3.1 Early Forms
3.3.2 Standard Forms
3.3.3 Language Position
3.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Indian Signing System
3.4 Scope
4 Code
4.1 ISO 639 1
4.2 ISO 639 2
4.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
4.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
4.3 ISO 639 3
4.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
4.5 Glottocode
4.6 Linguasphere
4.7 Types of Language
4.7.1 Language Type
4.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
4.7.3 Language Morphological Typology