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About Sinhalese Language

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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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1
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1.3 National Language
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
1.9 Similar To
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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54
Rank: 33 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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18
Rank: 15 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Sinhala alphabet
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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Rank: 11 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Vedda
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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4.2 Dialect 2
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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1
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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16.00 million
Rank: 45 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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0.25 %
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5.3 Native Speakers
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16.00 million
Rank: 39 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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2.00 million
Rank: 34 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
singhalais
5.3.5 German Name
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
3
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Indic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
si
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
sin
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
sin
7.3 ISO 639 3
sin
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
sinh1246
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional

Know Alphabets in Sinhalese

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Sinhalese Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Sinhalese Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Sinhalese. Sinhalese phonology gives Sinhalese vowels and Sinhalese consonants. There are 18 vowels and 36 consonants in Sinhalese language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Sinhalese is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Sinhalese language is given in detail in this section.

All Sinhalese countries

Want to explore all Sinhalese countries? About Sinhalese language serves you with all Sinhalese Speaking Countries. Countries that use Sinhalese as official language are called as Sinhalese countries.

  • Countries that use Sinhalese as their National Language are: Sri Lanka.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Sinhalese as second language are: Sri Lanka.

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Learn Sinhalese greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Sinhalese Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Sinhalese language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Sinhalese language.Learn Sinhalese greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: හලෝ (halō)
  • Thank you: ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  • Good Morning: සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  • Good Evening: සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  • Good Afternoon: සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

All Sinhalese Language Codes

Get to know all Sinhalese language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Sinhalese Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.