1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Dzongkha Development Commission
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.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Sikkimese Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Tibetan 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
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Kuzoozangpo La
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Kaadinchhey La
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
lek shom ay zim
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Not Available
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Not Available
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Not Available
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Tsip maza
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Nga cheu lu ga
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Tsip maza
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 million0.64 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million0.17 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Ngalop people
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
Dzongkha
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