Countries
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
71
0
46
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National Language
Azerbaijan, Gambia
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
- Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
- 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
Turkish
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Osmanly language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3254
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
918
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2336
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Salam
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Təşəkkür edirəm
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
necəsən
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
yaxşı gecə
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Axşamınız xeyir
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Günortanız Xeyir
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Sabahınız xeyir
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
lütfən
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
üzr
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
xudafiz
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Mən səni sevirəm
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Bağışlayın
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Derbent
Vedda
Where They Speak
Russia
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
37,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gazakh
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan
-
How Many People Speak
37,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baku
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan
-
How Many People Speak
37.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
331
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
26.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.34 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
23.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
25.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
azéri
singhalais
German Name
Aserbeidschanisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Azerbaijani
Sinhalese people
Origin
16th Century
3
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Azerbaijani
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
3870
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Azerbaijani
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
az
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aze
sin
ISO 639 2/B
aze
sin
ISO 639 3
aze
sin
ISO 639 6
aze
sin
Glottocode
azer1255
sinh1246
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional