1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
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
Ndiyabulela
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Unjani
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Molo
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Ndicela
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
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
4.2.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
20.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
11.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
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
isiXhosa
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
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
99-AUT-fa
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