Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- 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
Chinese Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2854
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
818
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
102
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
谢谢
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
你好吗？
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
晚安
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
晚上好
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
下午好
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
早上好
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
请
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
遗憾
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
再见
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
我爱你
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
原谅我
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Vedda
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
-
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
-
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
cantonais
singhalais
German Name
Kantonesisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Sinhalese people
Origin
17th century
3
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
170
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
sin
ISO 639 2/B
yue
sin
ISO 639 3
No data available
sin
ISO 639 6
yue
sin
Glottocode
cant1236
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional