1 Countries
1.1 Countries
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
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
1.10 Phonology
1.10.1 How Many Vowels
2.7.1 How Many Consonants
3.4 Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
3.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
3.6 Hard to Learn
3.6.1 Language Levels
3.9.2 Time Taken to Learn
4 Greetings
4.1 Hello
හලෝ (halō)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
4.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
4.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
4.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
4.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
4.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
4.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
4.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
4.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
4.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
4.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
4.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
5 Dialects
5.1 Dialect 1
5.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
China, India, Nepal
5.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
5.5 Dialect 2
Not Available
Khams Tibetan
5.5.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Bhutan, China
5.5.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,400,000.00
700
80000000
7.2 Dialect 3
Not Available
Amdo Tibetan
7.2.1 Where They Speak
7.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
9.2 Total No. Of Dialects
10 How Many People Speak
10.1 How Many People Speak?
16.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
10.4 Speaking Population
11.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
11.4.1 Second Language Speakers
12.2.1 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
12.2.2 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
12.2.3 French Name
12.2.4 German Name
12.3 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
12.4 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
tibetan people
13 History
13.1 Origin
13.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
13.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
13.2.2 Branch
13.3 Language Forms
13.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
13.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Standard Tibetan
13.3.3 Language Position
13.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
13.4 Scope
14 Code
14.1 ISO 639 1
14.2 ISO 639 2
14.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
14.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
14.3 ISO 639 3
14.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
14.5 Glottocode
14.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
14.7 Types of Language
14.7.1 Language Type
14.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
14.7.3 Language Morphological Typology