Countries
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
- 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
Dutch Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Dutch Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3254
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1518
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1736
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Dankie
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
goeie nag
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Goeienaand
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
goeie more
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
asseblief
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
jammer
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Totsiens
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Vedda
Where They Speak
-
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Namibia
-
How Many People Speak
7.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
19.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Afrikaans
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
afrikaans
singhalais
German Name
Afrikaans
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Sinhalese people
Origin
17th Century
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Western
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2370
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
af
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
sin
ISO 639 2/B
afr
sin
ISO 639 3
afr
sin
ISO 639 6
afrs
sin
Glottocode
afri1274
sinh1246
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Fusional