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)
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Marathi
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
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Dev Borem Korum
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
kaso assa?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Rati Boren Zavonn
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Sanj Borem Zavonn
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Dis Borem Zavonn
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Chike
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Maf kor
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
hav tujo mog korta.
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
upkar korxi
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
Not present
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Not present
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 million7.40 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million7.40 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Konkanis
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European 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
Indian Signing System (ISS)
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
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