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.
- The Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Madurese and Malay Languages
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
Sinhala alphabet
Latin, Sundanese
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)
Nuhun
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kumaha kabarna?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Wilujeng kulem
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Wilujeng wengi
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Wilujeng siang
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Wilujeng énjing
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Mangga
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Hapunten
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Wilujeng angkat
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Punten
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
Northern dialect
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Priangan dialect
4.3.1 Where They Speak
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 million39.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million38.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Not Available
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Priangan, Sunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Sundanesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Sundanese
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-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology