1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Sri Lanka
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
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- 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
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
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
Asante
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Habari gani?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Usiku mwema
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
tafadhali
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
nakupenda
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Samahani
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Not Available
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?
150.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 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
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo 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
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
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
99-AUS-m
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology