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Countries

Countries
Sri Lanka

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

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
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Alphabets
54 33

Phonology

How Many Vowels
18 15

How Many Consonants
36 26

Scripts
Sinhala alphabet

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
2 1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 30

Dialect 2
Sri Lankan Sinhala

Where They Speak
-

How Many People Speak
19,000,000.00 27

Dialect 3
Up-Country Sinhalese

Where They Speak
-

How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00 27

Total No. Of Dialects
1 1

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
16.00 million 45

Speaking Population
0.25 % 43

Native Speakers
16.00 million 39

Second Language Speakers
2.00 million 57

Native Name
සිංහල (sĩhala)

Alternative Names
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala

French Name
singhalais

German Name
Singhalesisch

Pronunciation
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]

Ethnicity
Sinhalese people

History

Origin
3

Language Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian

Branch
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms
Sinhalese Prakrit

Standard Forms
Modern Sinhalese

Language Position
70 59

Signed Forms
Signed Sinhalese

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
si

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

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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.

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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.

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