1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
India, Pakistan
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
India
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Arabic and Hindi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Ghaznavid Persian 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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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)
آپ کا شکریہ
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
گڈ نائٹ
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
سلام علیکم
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
گڈ آفٹر نون
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
گڈ مارننگ
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
براہ مہربانی
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
معاف کرنا
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
مجھے تم سے محبت
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
معاف کیجئے گا
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA11,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
Hyderabadi Urdu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
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 million104.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million61.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million43.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Bihari
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Modern Standard Urdu
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Urdu
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
59-AAF-q
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