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
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Not Available
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
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
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)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Amdo Tibetan
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan 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