1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
India, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
India, Pakistan, Sindh
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)
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
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.
- The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Gujarati
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Prakrit 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
1.2 Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Arabic, Devanagari
1.3 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
1.4 Hard to Learn
1.4.1 Language Levels
1.5.3 Time Taken to Learn
2 Greetings
2.1 Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Assalam O Alaikum
2.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Meharbani
2.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kehra haal aahin
2.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
tava kia aayo
2.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Sham Jo Salam
2.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Assalam o Alaikum
2.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Subho Bakhair
2.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Mehrbani
2.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Moon khe afsos aahe
2.10 Bye
2.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
2.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Maaf Kajo
3 Dialects
3.1 Dialect 1
3.1.1 Where They Speak
3.1.2 How Many People Speak
3.3 Dialect 2
3.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Central Sindh
3.3.2 How Many People Speak
3.4 Dialect 3
3.4.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Lower Sindh
3.4.2 How Many People Speak
3.5 Total No. Of Dialects
4 How Many People Speak
4.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million29.00 million
0.13
1200
4.2 Speaking Population
4.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
4.3.1 Second Language Speakers
4.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Not Available
4.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Not Available
4.3.4 French Name
4.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Sindhi-Sprache
4.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
4.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Not Available
5 History
5.1 Origin
5.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
5.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
5.2.2 Branch
5.3 Language Forms
5.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Not Available
5.3.2 Standard Forms
5.3.3 Language Position
5.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
5.4 Scope
6 Code
6.1 ISO 639 1
6.2 ISO 639 2
6.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
6.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
6.3 ISO 639 3
6.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
6.5 Glottocode
6.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
6.7 Types of Language
6.7.1 Language Type
6.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
6.7.3 Language Morphological Typology