1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
East Asia, European Union, South America
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
East Asia, European Union
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe, South America
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)
Akademio de Esperanto
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.
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Not Available
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
Not Available
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)
Dankon
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kiel vi sanas?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Bonan nokton
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Bonan vesperon
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Bonan posttagmezon
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Bonan matenon
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Mi petas
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Mi bedaŭras!
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Mi amas vin
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Pardonu!
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
Not present
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not present
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Not present
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not present
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 million2.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million0.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[espeˈranto]
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Proto-Esperanto
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Esperanto
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
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
51-AAB-da
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