1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
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.
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Spanish and Galician Languages
1.10 Derived From
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)
obrigado
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Como você está?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
boa noite
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
boa Noite
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
boa Tarde
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
bom Dia
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Por Favor
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
pesaroso
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Eu te amo
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
desculpe me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Vedda
Brazilian Portuguese
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA204,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
European Portuguese
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA10,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Daman and Diu
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 million231.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million216.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Português
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Portugiesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Portuguese people or portugueses
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Medieval Galician
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Portuguese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Portuguese
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
51-AAA-a
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