Countries
India, Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Jammu and Kashmir, India
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
-
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Dogri is derived from Sanskrit, but it has absorbed a large number of Arabic, Persian and English words.
- Dogri language has its own grammar and dictionary. The grammar of dogri has very strong sanskrit base.
- 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
Hindi and Punjabi Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4854
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1218
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3636
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Perso-Arabic script
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
42 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ke aal aee
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
dhanwaad
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
kiyaan oo ji
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
shub ratri
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
shub ratri
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
शुभ अपराह्न
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
su prabat
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
kripya
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
mere kaulan galti ooyyii
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
changa ji pher
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Minjo tere naal pyar hega
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
gustakhi maaf
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Jaunsari
Vedda
Where They Speak
Himachal Pradesh, India
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
100,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kullu
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Georgia, Himachal Pradesh, India
-
How Many People Speak
110,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hinduri
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
France, Himachal Pradesh, India
-
How Many People Speak
30,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
81
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
4.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.30 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
डोगरी
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Dhogaryali, Dogari, Dogri Jammu, Dogri Pahari, Dogri-Kangri, Dongari, Hindi Dogri, Tokkaru
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
dogri
singhalais
German Name
Dogri
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈd̪oːɡri]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Dogras
Sinhalese people
Origin
1971
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
Dogri
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
3270
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dogri
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
doi
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
doi
sin
ISO 639 2/B
doi
sin
ISO 639 3
doi
sin
ISO 639 6
doi
sin
Glottocode
indo1311
sinh1246
Linguasphere
59-AAA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional