1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Iraq, Kurdistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Farsi Language
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
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
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
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Sipas
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Tu çawa yî?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Şev xweş
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Evare baş
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Nee-wa-rowt bash
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Bayanit bash
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Bê zehmet
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bibûre
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ez te hez dikem
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Bê zehmet
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA20,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
Central Kurdish
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA5,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Southern Kurdish
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Eastern Iraq
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million21.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Not Available
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
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
Not Available
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
58-AAA-a
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