Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Ghana
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
- 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
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2154
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1018
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1636
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
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ete-sen
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
meda ase
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
maadwo
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
maadwo
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
maaha
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
maakye
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
wae
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Kafra
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
bye
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Me doכ wo
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Asante
Vedda
Where They Speak
Ghana
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Akuapem
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Ghana
-
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Fante
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Ghana
-
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Akan
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Twi, Fante
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
akan
singhalais
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Akan people
Sinhalese people
Origin
15
3
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Akan
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
10470
1
120
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Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ak
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aka
sin
ISO 639 2/B
aka
sin
ISO 639 3
aka
sin
ISO 639 6
aka
sin
Glottocode
akan1251
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional