1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
United States of America
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
United States of America
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)
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.
- Navajo language is tonal language, as it heavily relies on pitch to distinguish between similar words.
- Navajo ethinc group is 2nd largest Native American group.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Apache 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)
Ahéhee'
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Ąąʼ haʼíí baa naniná?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Yá'át'ééh hiiłchi'į'
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Yá'át'ééh ałní'íní
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Yá'át'ééh
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Yá'át'ééh abíní
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
T'aa shoodi
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Not available
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ayóó ánííníshí
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Shoohá
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 million1.70 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million1.70 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Diné Bizaad / Dinék'ehjí
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Navaho
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Navajo-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Navajo people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dené–Yeniseian 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
Navajo 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
No data available
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
Fusional
Fusional, Polysynthetic, Synthetic