1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Kalanga and Nambya 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)
Waita zvako
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Wakadini zvako?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Urare zvakanaka
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Manheru
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Masikati
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Mangwanani
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Ndinokumbirawo
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Ndineurombo
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ndinokuda
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Pamusoro
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
Not Available
southern Zimbabwe
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
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 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million8.30 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Not Available
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Schona-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Not Available
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Not Available
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
99-AUT-a
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