Countries
India, No official status
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
01
0
46
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National Language
India
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
- 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
Maithili and Magahi
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4354
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1118
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3436
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
प्रणाम (prannam)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
राम राम (raam raam)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
राम राम (raam raam)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
राम राम (raam raam)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
राम राम (raam raam)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
प्रणाम (prannam)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Caribbean Hindustani
Vedda
Where They Speak
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
16,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Fiji Hindi
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
-
How Many People Speak
380,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tharu Bhojpuri
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
India
-
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
131
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
40.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.43 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
40.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
bhojpuri
singhalais
German Name
Bhojpuri
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Bhojpuri speakers
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
Bhojpuri
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
3770
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bhojpuri Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data Available
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bho
sin
ISO 639 2/B
bho
sin
ISO 639 3
bho
sin
ISO 639 6
bho
sin
Glottocode
bhoj1246
sinh1246
Linguasphere
59-AAF-sa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional