1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
Lesotho, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
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)
Ndiyabulela
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Unjani
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Ulale kakuhle
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Ubusuku obuhle
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Molo
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Ndicela
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Ndicela uxolo
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ndiyakuthanda
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Uxolo
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
South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
South Africa
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 million20.00 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
2.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Xhosa-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
isiXhosa
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Xhosa
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-fa
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology