Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
61
0
46
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National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Sri Lanka
Second Language
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
- 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
German and English Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2654
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
618
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hallo
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
dankjewel
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
goede Nacht
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
goedenavond
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
goedemorgen
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
alsjeblieft
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
sorry
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
vaarwel
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
pardon
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Gronings
Vedda
Where They Speak
Netherlands
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
590,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
-
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Limburgian
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
-
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
71
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
28.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.32 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
22.00 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Nederlands
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
singhalais
German Name
Niederländisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Dutch people
Sinhalese people
Origin
AD 450-500
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Western
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
4870
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
nl
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nld
sin
ISO 639 2/B
dut
sin
ISO 639 3
nld
sin
ISO 639 6
nld
sin
Glottocode
mode1257
sinh1246
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional