1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
India, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
India, Pakistan
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)
Not Available
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.
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Hindi and Urdu Languages
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
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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)
Assalām ‘alaikum
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Not Available
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Hach t'ochoktiya
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Hach ch'i
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Not Available
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Pogul and Paristan valleys
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 million5.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million5.42 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Kashmiris or koshur
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
Kashmiri
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Indian Signing System (ISS)
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
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology