1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Central Hindi Directorate
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.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
1.9 Similar To
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
Sinhala alphabet
Devanagari
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)
नमस्ते (Namastē)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
खेद (Khēda)
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
अलविदा (Alavidā)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA22,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Bundelkhand
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA20,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million380.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million260.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Hindustani 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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Hindi
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Indian Signing System
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
59-AAF-qf
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
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic