1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Old German Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Prakrit 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
Sinhala alphabet
Devanagari
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
හලෝ (halō)
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
शुभः सायंकालः
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
शुभ दुपार
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
कृपया (kripayā)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
Not present
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Not present
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
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 million14.10 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million14.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
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
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Vedic Sanskrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Sanskrit
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
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology