1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
European Union, Slovenia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
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
Austria, Hungary, Italy
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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 Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Serbo-Croatian
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
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
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
Hvala
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Kako se imate?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Lahko noč
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Dober večer
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Dober dan
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Dobro jutro
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Prosim
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Oprostite
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ljubim te
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Oprostite
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Hungary, Slovenia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000.00
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
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million2.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million2.50 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
Slovenian, Slovenscina
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Slovenes
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
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
53-AAA-f
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