1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
China, Mongolia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
China, Mongolia
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)
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Turkish 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
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
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
හලෝ (halō)
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Хэрэв (Kherev)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Баяртай (Bayartai)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
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
Ordos Mongolian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA123,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Khorchin Mongolian
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 million5.70 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million5.70 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
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
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Mongolic family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Mongolian 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
part of 44-BAA-b
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