1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Adyghe language, Abaza language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Caucasian languages
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
Cyrillic
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
හලෝ (halō)
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Not Available
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Not Available
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Not available
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Not available
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
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 million0.13 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million0.13 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Abxazo, Abkhazian
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Abkhaz people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Northwest Caucasian
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
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
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
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology