1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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)
Pan South African Language Board
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 meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
Xhosa Language
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
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)
Ngiyabonga
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
unjani
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Ngiyacela
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Ngiyaxolisa
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Uxolo
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Georgia, South Africa
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 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
16.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
Zulu-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
Zulu people
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
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
Deep Zulu
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
99-AUT-fg
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