1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
1.9 Similar To
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit 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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
හලෝ (halō)
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
कृपया
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA790,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
India, Nepal
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 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Nepali
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
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
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