1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Armenian
1.10 Derived From
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
Arabic, Latin
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
හලෝ (halō)
γεια σας (geia sas)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
αντίο (antío)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
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 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million13.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
5.3.4 French Name
singhalais
grec moderne (après 1453)
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Neugriechisch
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Greeks or Hellenes
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Modern Greek
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Greek Sign Language
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
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
56-AAA-a
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