1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
North Korea, South Korea
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
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
The National Institute of the Korean 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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Chinese and Japanese 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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
හලෝ (halō)
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
하십시오 (hasibsio)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
안녕 (annyeong)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA10,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
South Korea
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA10,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
China, North Korea
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 million77.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million77.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Koreanic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Korean Sign Language
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
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