Countries
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
France, Spain
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
- 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
Spanish
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2754
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
518
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kaixo
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Eskerrik asko
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Zer moduz?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Gabon
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Arratsalde on
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Arratsalde on
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Egun on
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Mesedez
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Barkatu
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Agur
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Maite zaitut
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Barkatu
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Navarro-Lapurdian
Vedda
Where They Speak
France
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
68,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Souletin
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
France, Soule, Spain
-
How Many People Speak
8,700.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Biscayan
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Spain
-
How Many People Speak
750,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
61
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.20 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.12 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.20 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.70 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Euskara
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
basque
singhalais
German Name
Baskisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[bɑːsk]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Basque people
Sinhalese people
Origin
c. 1000
3
Language Family
Vasconic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Basque
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
3070
1
120
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Signed Forms
Basque Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
eu
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
eus
sin
ISO 639 2/B
baq
sin
ISO 639 3
eus
sin
ISO 639 6
eus
sin
Glottocode
basq1248
sinh1246
Linguasphere
40-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional