1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic
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 vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Chinese 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
Not Available
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)
Cam on
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Bạn khỏe không?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Chúc ngủ ngon
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Chào buổi tối
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Chào buổi trưa
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Chào buổi sáng
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
xin vui lòng
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Xin lỗi
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
tôi yêu bạn
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Xin loi
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Vedda
Northern Vietnamese
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
North-central Vietnamese
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Mid-Central Vietnamese
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
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 million91.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million75.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
tiếng việt (㗂越)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Vietnamesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Vietnamese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Vietnamese sign languages
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
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating