1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Bangladesh, India
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
Bangladesh, Bhutan
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Asam Sahitya Sabha
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.
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Bengali and Oriya
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, 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)
ḍhonyobaaḍ
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
aapuni kene aase?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
subhoraattri
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
subha gadhuli
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
subha abeli
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
suprobhaat
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
anugroha kori
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
moi ḍukkhita
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
kyoma koribo
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA6,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Western Assam
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 million15.30 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million15.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Assamesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Assamese people
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
Kamarupa
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Assamese
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAF-w
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