Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
- 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
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3354
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
718
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3136
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
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
Selam
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Dehna dur
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
i'bakwon
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
aznallehu
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
tschao
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
afekirishalehu
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
yiqirta
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Gondar
Vedda
Where They Speak
Gondar
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
-
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Showa
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
-
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
51
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
18.70 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
አማርኛ
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
amharique
singhalais
German Name
Amharisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Sinhalese people
Origin
13th century
3
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Ethiopic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Amharic
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
5570
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
sin
ISO 639 2/B
amh
sin
ISO 639 3
amh
sin
ISO 639 6
amh
sin
Glottocode
amha1245
sinh1246
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional