1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
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)
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
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.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Amharic and Hebrew
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
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)
شكرا
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
كيف حالك؟
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
تصبح على خير
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
مساء الخير
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
مساء الخير
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
صباح الخير
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
من فضلك
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
أحبك
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
اعذرني
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA17,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Cyprus, Levant
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA21,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million452.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million206.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million246.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
(al arabiya) العربية
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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 Arabic
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Arabic
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
Fusional, Synthetic