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)
Māori Language Commission
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.
- "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
- The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Tahitian 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
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)
Mauruuru koutou
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
E pēhea ana koe ?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Night pai
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
pai ahiahi
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Afternoon pai
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Morning pai
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Tēnā
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Aroha mai
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Aroha ahau ki a koe
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
tukua ahau
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
Western North Island Maori
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
New Zealand
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Eastern North Island Maori
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
New Zealand
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 million0.18 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million0.18 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
te Reo Māori
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
New Zealand Maori
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Maori-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Māori people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian 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
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
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology