1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
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
Thailand
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Indonesian Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Tamil Language
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
Not Available
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)
terima kasih
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Apa khabar?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Selamat Malam
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Selamat Petang
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Selamat tengah hari
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Selamat pagi
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
sila
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Selamat tinggal
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Saya sayang kamu
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Maafkan saya
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,600,000.00
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
NA3,100,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million175.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million77.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million98.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Bahasa melayu
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
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Pluricentric Standard Malay
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Malaysian Sign Language
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology