1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
China, Guangdong
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
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Chinese Language
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
Sinhala alphabet
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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)
谢谢
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
你好吗？
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
晚安
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
晚上好
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
下午好
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
早上好
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
我爱你
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
原谅我
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
outside mainland China
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 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million52.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Not Available
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
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
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Cantonese
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
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology