Countries
India
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
- 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
Bengali and Oriya
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5254
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1118
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4136
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali
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
nomoskaar
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
subhoraattri
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
suprobhaat
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
anugroha kori
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
biḍai
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
Vedda
Where They Speak
Western Assam
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Goalpariya
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Western Assam
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Assam
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
15.30 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
15.00 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
15.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
assamais
singhalais
German Name
Assamesisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Assamese people
Sinhalese people
Origin
7th century A.D
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Kamarupa
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Assamese
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
6570
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Assamese
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
as
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
asm
sin
ISO 639 2/B
asm
sin
ISO 639 3
asm
sin
ISO 639 6
asm
sin
Glottocode
assa1263
sinh1246
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional