1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Bangladesh, India
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not Available
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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
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
Sinhala alphabet
Bengali, 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)
Khublei
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kumno phi long?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
thia sukh
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
babha janmiet
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
babha noph-phai-sngi
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
khublei
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sngewbha
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
ieit ieit
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
map a nga
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
Not Available
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Cherrapunji
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
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 million0.84 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million0.84 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Not Available
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Khasi-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Khasi people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic 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
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
No data available
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