1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
European Union, Malta
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
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
National Council for the Maltese 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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Western Arabic Dialects
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Roman Languages
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
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)
Grazzi
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kif int?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
L-għodwa t-tajba
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Jekk jogħġbok
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Skużani!
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Inħobbok ħafna
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Skużi!
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
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 million0.52 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million0.52 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Malti
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
Afro-Asiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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
Maltese 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
No data available
12-AAC-c
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