Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
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National Language
China, Taiwan
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- 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
Japanese and Korean Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2654
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
2418
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2336
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
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Vedda
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Wu
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
-
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yue
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
-
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
101
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
16.00 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
873.00 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
178.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
chinois
singhalais
German Name
Chinesisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Han
Sinhalese people
Origin
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
170
1
120
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
zh
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
zho
sin
ISO 639 2/B
chi
sin
ISO 639 3
zho
sin
ISO 639 6
zho
sin
Glottocode
sini1245
sinh1246
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional