1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Ethiopia, Kenya
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
Somalia
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.
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Somali 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)
Galatoomi
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Attam jirta/jirtu?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Nagayattii buli
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Akkam waarite
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Attam oolte / ooltan
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Attam bulte/bultan
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Maaloo
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
naa dhiisi
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Sin jaaladha
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Maaloo na dabarsi
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Ethiopia, Kenya
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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
NA13,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million24.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Afaan Oromo
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Afaan Oromoo
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Galla-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic 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
Modern Sinhalese
Afaan Oromo
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