Countries
Philippines
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Philippines
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Philippines
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
- 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
Hiligaynon Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Island of Cebu
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2154
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
518
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1636
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
3 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hoy
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Salamat
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Kumusta man ka?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Maayong Gabii
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Maayong Gabii
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Maayong Hapon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Maayong Buntag
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Palihug
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Ikasubo ko
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Babay
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Gihigugma ko ikaw
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Ekskyus mi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Boholano
Vedda
Where They Speak
Bohol
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Southern Kana
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
southern Leyte
-
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
North Kana
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
northern part of Leyte
-
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
41
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
20.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.32 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
21.00 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
14.50 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Visayan
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
cebuano
singhalais
German Name
Cebuano
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[sɛbuˈɑno]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Cebuano people
Sinhalese people
Origin
16th century
3
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Cebuano
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
6270
1
120
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Signed Forms
Cebuano Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data Available
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ceb
sin
ISO 639 2/B
ceb
sin
ISO 639 3
ceb
sin
ISO 639 6
ceb
sin
Glottocode
cebu1242
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional