1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Arabic 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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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)
متشکرم
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
چطور هستید?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
شب بخیر
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
عصر بخیر
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
بعد از ظهر بخیر
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
صبح به خیر
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
لطفا
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
متاسف
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
من شما را دوست دارم
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
ببخشيد!
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA47,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
Dari Persian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA12,500,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Tajik Persian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA7,900,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million65.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million65.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Persian people
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
Old Persian and Middle Persian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Persian 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
58-AAC-c
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