1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit 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
Sinhala alphabet
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Vedda
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
Rank: 45 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.25 %
Rank: 41 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million
Rank: 39 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
Rank: 34 (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
singhalais
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
3
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Indic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
si
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
sin
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
sin
7.3 ISO 639 3
sin
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
sinh1246
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional