1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
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
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Madurese and Malay Languages
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit 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
Latin, Sundanese
Sinhala alphabet
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Nuhun
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Kumaha kabarna?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Wilujeng kulem
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Wilujeng wengi
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Wilujeng siang
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Wilujeng énjing
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Mangga
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
Hapunten
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
Wilujeng angkat
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Punten
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Northern dialect
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Priangan dialect
Not Available
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?
39.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
38.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Priangan, Sunda
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Sundanesisch
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Sundanese
Modern Sinhalese
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-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology