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
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
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.
- In 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish 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
Baybayin
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)
Salamat po
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kamusta ka na?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Magandang gabi
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Magandang gabi po
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Magandang hapon po
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Magandang umaga po
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
pakiusap
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
pinagsisisihan
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Iniibig kita
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Batangas, Gabon
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Philippines
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Philippines
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA90,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million73.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million28.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million45.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Filipino, Pilipino
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Tagalog people
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
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Filipino
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology