Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Iran
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
- 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
Kurdish and Persian
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3454
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
818
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2636
9
60
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Scripts
Perso-Arabic script
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Salam
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
mana bebahgsh
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
chone tao?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
jawáin shap
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
jawáin begáh
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
سلام علیکم
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
jawáin sawáh
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Mihrabani kan
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
bebaksh / bebagsh
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
bye
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Tu mana doost biyeh
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
mana bebahgsh
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Eastern Balochi
Vedda
Where They Speak
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Western Balochi
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
-
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Balochi
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
-
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.50 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
بلوچی
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Baluchi
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
baloutchi
singhalais
German Name
Belutschisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[bəˈloʧi]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
Sinhalese people
Origin
19th Century
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Balochi
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
3970
1
120
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Signed Forms
Balochi Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bal
sin
ISO 639 2/B
bal
sin
ISO 639 3
bal
sin
ISO 639 6
bal
sin
Glottocode
balo1260
sinh1246
Linguasphere
58-AAB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional