Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
Sri Lanka
National Language
Spain
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
French Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Latin
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
Gracias
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Cómo estás?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Buenas Noches
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Bonne soirée
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Buenos Días
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Por Favor
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
triste
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
I Love You
Te Quiero
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Discúlpeme
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish
Vedda
Where They Speak
Mexico
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
Not Available
Where They Speak
Cuba
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
Not Available
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
Español
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
espagnol; castillan
singhalais
German Name
Spanisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Sinhalese people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Romance
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
Modern Sinhalese
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
stan1288
sinh1246
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional