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)
Commission on the Filipino Language
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.
- Ilocano was originally written with Baybayin syllabary, then gradually it was replaced by Latin alphabet.
- Northwest Luzon is the original Ilocano homeland.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Tagalog, Indonesian and Malaysian Languages
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
Ilokano Braille, Latin
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)
Agyamanak
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kumusta?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Naimbag a rabii
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Naimbag a sardam
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Naimbag a malem
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Naimbag a bigat
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Not available
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Agpakawanak
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ayayatenka
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Maawan-dayawen
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA21,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Philippines
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 million9.10 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million9.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Ilokano, Iloko
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Ilokano-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Ilocano people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian 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
Modern Ilocano
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
31-CBA-a
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