1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Rajastan, India
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Rajastan, India
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
Nepal, Pakistan
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.
- Marwari language was historically written in Mahajani, which is version of the Landa script.
- Marwari language is written in Arabic Alphabets in Pakistan.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Gujarati, Haryanvi, Hindi and Punjabi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Gujarati Language
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
Devanagari
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)
dhanyavaad
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kikan ho sa?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
shubh raatri
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Shubh Honjh
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Shubh Befar
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Shubh Havar
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
kirpa
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Maaf Karo
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
main tanne pyaar karoon
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
maaf karo
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
4.3.1 Where They Speak
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 million22.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million14.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Marvadi, Marvari, Marwadi, Rajasthani
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Marwari or Marwadi
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
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
Indian Signing System (ISS)
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