Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
East Asia, European Union
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Akademio de Esperanto
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
Interesting Facts
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
- 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
Latin and Italian Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3254
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
518
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2736
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
6 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Dankon
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Kiel vi sanas?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Bonan nokton
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Bonan vesperon
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Bonan posttagmezon
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Bonan matenon
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Mi petas
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Mi bedaŭras!
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Ĝis poste
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Mi amas vin
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Pardonu!
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Not present
Vedda
Where They Speak
Not present
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Not present
-
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Not present
-
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
01
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
2.20 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.20 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Esperanto
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
espéranto
singhalais
German Name
Esperanto
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[espeˈranto]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Esperanto speakers
Sinhalese people
Origin
1887
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Esperanto
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Esperanto
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
3370
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signuno
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
eo
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
epo
sin
ISO 639 2/B
epo
sin
ISO 639 3
epo
sin
ISO 639 6
epo
sin
Glottocode
espe1235
sinh1246
Linguasphere
51-AAB-da
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Constructed
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional