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
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Uzbek Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Gokturk 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
Sinhala alphabet
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
හලෝ (halō)
Ässalamu läykum.
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
rakhmat
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
birdam
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
kachurung
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
sizni yahshi kOrman
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Kachurung
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
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 million10.40 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million8.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
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
No data Available
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