Countries
Countries
Sri Lanka
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
1
14
3
12
National Language
Sri Lanka
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Maldivian Language
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
54
33
53
32
Phonology
How Many Vowels
18
15
15
12
How Many Consonants
36
26
41
30
Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
2
1
2
1
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
11
44 weeks
11
Greetings
Hello
හලෝ (halō)
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
බායි (bāyi)
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Vedda
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Israel, kerala
Dialect 2
Not Available
Mappila
Where They Speak
Not Available
India
Dialect 3
Not Available
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Not Available
France, kerala
Total No. Of Dialects
1
1
3
3
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
99+
38.00 million
33
Speaking Population
0.25 %
99+
0.57 %
27
Native Speakers
16.00 million
39
38.00 million
26
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
34
Not Available
Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
singhalais
malayalam
German Name
Singhalesisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Malayali
History
Origin
3
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early form
Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Malayalam
Language Position
70
99+
29
24
Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
si
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sin
mal
ISO 639 2/B
sin
mal
ISO 639 3
sin
mal
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sinh1246
mala1464
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic
