About Sinhalese Language | Sinhalese | Alphabets in Sinhalese

Countries

Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Sri Lanka

Second Language

Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)

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.

Similar To

Maldivian Language

Derived From

Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 33 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 15 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 26 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 1 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

හලෝ (halō)

Thank You

ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)

How Are You?

ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)

Good Night

සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)

Good Evening

සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)

Good Afternoon

සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)

Good Morning

සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)

Please

කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)

Sorry

සමාවන්න (samāvanna)

Bye

බායි (bāyi)

I Love You

මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)

Excuse Me

මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Vedda

Where They Speak

Sri Lanka

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.00

Rank: 30 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak

How Many People Speak

19,000,000.00

Rank: 27 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.00

Rank: 27 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 1 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

16.00 million

Rank: 45 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.25 %

Rank: 43 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

16.00 million

Rank: 39 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million

Rank: 57 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names

Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name

singhalais

German Name

Singhalesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity

Sinhalese people

History

Origin

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

Branch

Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms

Modern Sinhalese

Language Position

Rank: 59 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Sinhalese

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

sin

ISO 639 2/B

sin

ISO 639 3

sin

ISO 639 6

sin

Glottocode

sinh1246

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

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.